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25.0.91; Point randomly jumps during key entry

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From: Steve Revilak <steve <at> srevilak.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.91; Point randomly jumps during key entry
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:39:49 -0500

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First, please accept my apologies for the poor bug report.  I'm calling
it a poor bug report because I've been unable to find a simple recipe
that easily reproduces the behavior I'm seeing.

The behavior itself is easy to describe: while providing keyboard input,
sometimes point jumps to a (seemingly) random place in the buffer.

Some examples

 - while holding the UP arrow to slowly scroll upwards in the current
   buffer, point suddenly `jumps' up, over several screenfuls of text

 - while typing (ordinary alphanumeric text), point jumps to a line
   near the top of the file.  I've noticed this most often when using
   emacs to write java code.  I'll be typing away in the body of a
   method, and point will jump to a position in the file header
   comment, several hundred lines earlier.

This doesn't happen very often.  Perhaps 3--4 times during a work day.
I have not found a way to make it happen on demand.

I've experienced this behavior in 25.0.90 and 25.0.91, but not in
earlier versions.

I typically see this behavior in java-mode and org-mode.  That said, the
vast majority of my emacs usage involves java-mode and org-mode.

I've seen this behavior on two different x86_64 GNU/Linux systems.
One system runs Redhat 6.4, and the other runs OpenSUSE 13.2.  Both
systems have `standard' USB keyboards, and optical mice.

If I'm able to find a nice set of steps to reproduce, I'll add them to
this bug report.

If there are suggestions for gathering/providing more information,
please let me know, and I'll gladly try them.





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