Hi Ben

this is what I do not like about AquaEmacs, that it installs all kinds  
of defaults which you might not want.

You can turn off saveplace with

(setq-default save-place nil)

You might still have to remove places.el.



Or you can make sure that the cursor always starts out at the  
beginning of a visible line with

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
    (lambda () (let (org-special-ctrl-a/e) (org-beginning-of-line))))

Then saveplace will get its will by moving the cursor to the recent  
location, but the cursor would be moved to the beginning of a visible  
line near that location.



Or you can make sure that the point visited by saveplace will be  
visible, with

(eval-after-load "saveplace"
   '(defadvice save-place-find-file-hook (after org-make-visible  
activate)
      "Make the position visible."
      (org-bookmark-jump-unhide)))

I am actually putting this last piece of code into org.el.

HTH

- Carsten


On Oct 26, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Ben Alexander wrote:

> So about this bug...
>
> I think I've figured out why I get this so often.  I use Aquamacs on  
> MacOS X, and it seems to store (in ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs  
> Emacs/places.el) a list of files and values for point.
>
> Something about the timing of this means that point is left  
> somewhere in the body (or maybe subheading?) of a headline, even  
> though org-mode presents the file in 'Overview'.  Since the point is  
> in an unexpected location, even though the cursor looks fine, (org- 
> cycle) doesn't work as it looks like it should.
>
> I think I'd like to turn off the 'places.el' thing.
>
> And I reiterate: this is really a tiny issue.  Just hitting C-a  
> fixes the state of point.
>
> On 2008-Oct-24, at 19:44, Avdi Grimm wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org 
>> > wrote:
>>> Ok, here's your chance.  This is something that has bothered me  
>>> for quite
>>> some time, but I've never been able to reliably reproduce the  
>>> problem.  And
>>> it's such a small issue.
>>
>> Thanks!  I'll try to take a look tonight
> ...
>
> -Ben
>
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