Re: Patch: enhanced mark navigation commands

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:10:25 +0900 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote: 

MB> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> I think it's possible to make this useful with navigation layers.
>> 
>> Layers 0-9 reserved for char/word/paragraph/page/etc motion
>> Layer 10: edits (what Adrian Robert's patch provides)
>> Layer 11: tags (ctags, etags, etc.); function/variable definitions
>> Layer 12: grep/diff/compile/occur points
>> Layer 13: buffers (like cycle-buffer)
>> Layer 14: Gnus articles or dired files or other bundles of information
>> Layer 15: Gnus groups (or other aggregators for layer 14)
>> Layer 16: Gnus topics (or other aggregators for layer 15)
>> 
>> Layers 10 and 11 may have to be swapped.  We may think of more layers,
>> and what I've listed above is just an idea.  The point is that we'll
>> give the user a way to move back and forth between things that are
>> interesting.

MB> To be honest, it sounds maddeningly annoying...

After thinking about it, you're right.  I still think there's a need for
more unified navigation commands than the hodge-podge we have in Emacs
now, but this is not the way to do it.

Ted