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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'David De La Harpe Golden'" <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: 'Alan Mackenzie' <acm@muc.de>,
	"'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	'Glenn Morris' <rgm@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting]
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:02:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000601c898d1$34daf210$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FA412F.2080505@harpegolden.net>

> The mark ring marks of course aren't necessarily in display order,
> they're in the order you set them, so without any visual 
> differentiation between the different mark ring mark highlights,
> you can't really tell from the display which mark you'll end up
> at when you hit C-u C-SPC, you just know it's one of 'em - once
> I could see the marks, I found myself wanting "jump to next/prev
> mark relative to point, in display order" more than "pop mark".

OT, FWIW: 

In Icicles, you can "see" the list of marks (the text of their lines) as a set
of completions in *Completions*. And you can sort them in various ways (so you
can access them in various orders). By default, they are in buffer order
(position), not mark-ring order.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-06 19:43 rampant region highlighting Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 21:50 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-06 22:00   ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 22:17     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-06 22:52   ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-06 23:00   ` Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting] Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-06 23:01     ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 22:28       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-07 22:18         ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 23:50     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-06 23:58       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07  1:19         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-07  4:33           ` visual marks [was: " Drew Adams
2008-04-07 15:43             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-07 16:03               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07 17:40                 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-07 17:02               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-04-07  0:49       ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-04-07 21:26       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-07 21:37         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 10:05           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-08 10:20             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 15:35           ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:07         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 10:31           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-08 17:52             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 18:09               ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 23:54         ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-06 22:09 ` rampant region highlighting Chong Yidong
2008-04-06 22:18   ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 22:37     ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 15:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07 18:30       ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-07 19:21         ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 20:25           ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-07 21:01             ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 21:13               ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 21:54                 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-07  4:30   ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 18:29     ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 23:40 ` Thomas Lord

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