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I am encountering a strange behavior where any temporary buffer overwrites the main buffer content.

Using org time-stamp for example; the expected behavior is:

  1. Invoke org time-stamp from within an org document
  2. Temporary buffer with dates is opened below the main buffer
  3. Choose date / time
  4. Date / time is inserted into the org file

Instead the time-stamp temporary buffer overwrites all the content of the main buffer and no date / time selection is possible.

This also occurs across functions that use a similar temporary buffer mechanism like org-capture. Any advice on how to fix this or what is causing this behavior?

system     Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Linux 5.19.0-50-generic x86_64 x
emacs      27.1 ~/.config/emacs/
doom       3.0.0-pre 
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           treemacs vc-gutter vi-tilde-fringe workspaces :editor (evil +everywhere)
           file-templates fold snippets :emacs dired electric undo vc :checkers syntax
           (spell +flyspell) grammar :tools biblio (eval +overlay) lookup magit :lang
           emacs-lisp latex markdown (org + journal + pretty + roam2) python sh
           :config literate (default +bindings +smartparens)
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           (beacon) (org-super-agenda) (org-modern) (ob-mermaid) (golden-ratio)
David Cooper
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  • Can you reproduce the issue starting from emacs -Q ? – phils Jul 30 '23 at 02:22
  • No - starting from emacs -Q things appear to be functioning as expected. I'm assuming the fault is somewhere in my config, but I have no idea how to start backtracing / untangling it. – David Cooper Jul 30 '23 at 02:37
  • Recursive bisection is generally the best approach when you don't know where to start. At each step eliminate ~half the remaining config and then re-test to find out whether the issue still exists. The test result tells you which half the problem is in, so you then eliminate half of that, and so on. It doesn't take very many iterations to narrow things down. – phils Jul 30 '23 at 02:44
  • See How to troubleshoot Emacs problems. – NickD Jul 30 '23 at 12:36

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@phils approach mentioned above helped me solve it.

Culprit was golden-ratio-mode for future reference.

David Cooper
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  • That seems like a bug in that library, then. I suggest reporting it to the maintainer to see what they make of it. – phils Aug 01 '23 at 00:19