RE: Strange behavior editing a file from Dired

[Drew Adams]

> > Occasionally I find that point has moved up some number of lines in
> > the Dired buffer.  The number of lines varies.
> 
> Are you using multiple frames?  This can happen if the buffer is also
> displayed in another frame with a different window point.

My thought exactly.  It's a gotcha that I still fall into,
even though I've been using many frames for a long time.

You put the cursor back where it was, and after trying to
do something that depends on where it was, you see that it
was moved somewhere else.