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From: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Rolf Ade <rolf@pointsman.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: goto-line-history should not be buffer local.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:04:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rddtz6a.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YC5EtpjSJM2vtAmJ@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:43:02 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> A third case, which is what got on my nerves last weekend, is when you
> are repeatedly killing a buffer and loading the same file again, so as
> to clear caches, and so on.  You want to go to the same place at each
> new loading, so as to do testing.

Out of curiosity, in this specific case, wouldn't revert-buffer (now
conveniently bound to C-x x g) accomplish the same thing?  (Clear
caches, while preserving the buffer-local history)

(Not suggesting that this invalidates your use-cases; just trying to
make sure I understand this one)

> I'm curious as to why somebody would want buffer local goto-line
> history.  How often does one repeat the same goto-line in the same
> buffer, and how does a buffer local history help?

🤷 I guess someone could use that buffer-local history as a manually
curated version of the mark ring?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-18 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-14 19:18 goto-line-history should not be buffer local Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-14 23:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-14 23:31   ` Richard Copley
2021-02-15  8:17     ` martin rudalics
2021-02-15 21:12       ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-16 11:46         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-16 17:13         ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-16 20:57           ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-16 22:52             ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-16 22:56               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-18  0:26               ` Rolf Ade
2021-02-18 10:43                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 11:04                   ` Kévin Le Gouguec [this message]
2021-02-18 11:38                   ` Rolf Ade
2021-02-18 10:53                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-18 11:02                 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-16 22:56             ` Stefan Monnier

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