When: - 2 windows open the same file - There's a timer dealing with modeline or header-line format Then pressing `C-g` sometimes scrolls the buffer in this window to the position in the other window. Here's a recipe for reproduce: - `$ emacs -Q` - Eval this: ``` (run-with-timer 0 0.1 (lambda () (setq mode-line-format "hi"))) ``` - `M-x delete-other-windows` so we have only one window. - `C-x C-f` to open a file. I use when testing, but any file that's long enough should work. - `M-x split-window-horizontally`, so we have 2 windows viewing the same file. For some reason, splitting vertically doesn't trigger the problem. - Scroll one window down to somethere. - Hold `C-g` or press it repeatedly and quickly, then the window will go to the same position in file as the other window. You can do the same with `header-line-format`, it also has the problem. Using `run-with-idle-timer` instead seems doesn't have the problem. See also where I report the same problem. I believe another package that's influenced by this is . --- Info generated by `report-emacs-bug` --- In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, cairo version 1.17.3) of 2020-08-29 built on juergen Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12009000 System Description: Manjaro Linux Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Mark set [nil 24482 55348 93490 0.1 (closure (t) nil (setq mode-line-format "hi")) nil nil 920000] You can run the command ‘split-window-horizontally’ with M-x sp-h RET Quit [22 times] Quit Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-wide-int --with-modules --with-cairo --with-harfbuzz 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: zh_CN.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: zh_CN.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: zh_CN.UTF-8 value of $LANG: zh_CN.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=fcitx locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: C/*l Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode cc-mode cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs cl-loaddefs cl-lib china-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 75931 7519) (symbols 48 8992 1) (strings 32 23346 1733) (string-bytes 1 858985) (vectors 16 14047) (vector-slots 8 224399 9036) (floats 8 27 38) (intervals 56 1440 1) (buffers 1000 12))