Re: Jumping from one position to other position

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> If anybody have better way of jumping from one place A to place B and
> returning again to place A, and again to place B, let me know.

(1) Most obvious: Use two windows.

(2) Use registers.  I've created "hotkeys" to save and restore 3
positions in 3 registers (I use registers A, B and C for that).  One-key
sequences, of course, should that be.  I chose H-kp-1, C-kp-1,
H-kp-2, ...

(3) A very smart "go to last change" package would ease that pain.  I
once tried to implement something, but finding a good heuristic that
behaves well under different circumstances is surprisingly hard.

(2a) Instead of using registers, you can also use something that jumps
to the old position and stores the new one at the same time with one
command, a "switch between two places" command so to say.  Implementing
something like that is obviously easy.  I already did and am now using
(1) and (2) instead (probably because these are much more general tools,
so I have to remember less).


Regards,

Michael.