From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting] Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:02:47 -0700 Message-ID: <000601c898d1$34daf210$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <47F945C3.1060103@harpegolden.net> <20080406230056.GB5362@muc.de><47F961D2.7080002@harpegolden.net> <47F9639A.5090400@gmail.com> <47F976B4.2070301@harpegolden.net> <002101c89868$97d77640$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <47FA412F.2080505@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207588015 3819 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 17:06:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Alan Mackenzie' , "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" , 'Glenn Morris' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'David De La Harpe Golden'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 19:07:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jiuo3-0007EL-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:06:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiunQ-0004Kt-FG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiukW-0000K5-0O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiukU-0000Gl-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiukU-0000GL-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JiukK-0005hA-0Q; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m37H2tnj029387; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:02:55 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m37ACD3P011085; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:02:54 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3640991521207587767; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:02:47 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:02:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <47FA412F.2080505@harpegolden.net> Thread-Index: AciYxk6eoFr+dzxTTzm73SpBFv4lAwACXsZw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94598 Archived-At: > 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.