Re: List line numbers for easy navigation

[Heime]

On Friday, April 19th, 2024 at 9:16 AM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> 
wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:02:56 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Friday, April 19th, 2024 at 8:54 AM, Stephen Berman
> > stephen.berman@gmx.net wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:38:44 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > > Suppose I am writing some code at row 1358 and want to check on two 
> > > > functions,
> > > > one starting at row 355, the other at row 589. I want to go to the row 
> > > > and add
> > > > the current row to the list (Will do this three times). Then have a 
> > > > command to
> > > > navigate between them. Call command te get me to the respective row.
> > > 
> > > You can do this with existing Emacs commands: `M-g M-g' (or` M-g g') to
> > > get prompted for a line number and then jump to it, and then you can use
> > > the mark ring (info "(emacs) Mark Ring") or registers (info "(emacs)
> > > Position Registers") to navigate between positions. Why reinvent the
> > > wheel?
> > > 
> > > Steve Berman
> > 
> > Because I am finding that going to the marks with the current keybindings
> > difficult to remember. Perhaps I can make a new easier command that takes
> > care of the marks for me and help me use the existing emacs commands without
> > too much struggle.
> 
> 
> Then I can only suggest reading those sections of the Emacs manual and
> if necessary looking at the source code of the functions (I think most
> of the are Lisp functions in simple.el). Then maybe you can put
> something together for yourself, though I suspect it won't be easy to
> get something that works as well as the existing commands. One other
> tip: if what you really want to do is navigate between existing
> functions or other named pieces of code, then using `M-.' and` M-,' is
> probably the most efficient way, see (info "(emacs) Looking Up Identifiers").
> 
> Steve Berman

I know that C-<SPC> calls the command (set-mark-command ARG)

But have no idea of the commands associated with "C-<SPC> C-<SPC>" and with 
"C-u C-<SPC>".  Would like a command I can
call with M-x that does the marking functionality.