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Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:39:11 +0400
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C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com> writes:

> I need some tips for quick jumping around. As in, say I'm editing a line and > need to go up a couple of paragraphs to edit something and then resume at my
> original position.
> The way I used to accomplish this in Vi was using mm to mark the current
> position into m register and then go somewhere and come back by pressing 'm
>
> Now, I know that in emacs I can do it using C-x-r-<SPC> to mark a position into > a register and then jump back to it usng C-x-r-j ... is there a better way?
> Rather, what's a better way?

You can try this package:
https://github.com/dgutov/point-stack/blob/master/point-stack.el

It's a more general solution for back-and-forth navigation, but you can
also save any position manually with a hotkey.

--Dmitry



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