Re: A feature to go to last edit locations

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> [2023-02-12 21:53]:
> On 12/02/2023 20:50, Daniel Martín wrote:
> > Another question is how to track the edit locations efficiently.  A
> > naive implementation would be to add a function to
> > after-change-functions if the xref setting is enabled.
> 
> Sure, as one option. Except you'd have to differentiate user-made changes to
> the buffer and ones created by more complex commands, or timers, or
> auto-revert-mode...

One could do following:

- remember paragraph at point
- split it as words
- record those words
- jump to point
- search in buffer upwards and downwards for some regex like word.*word.*word.*

Maybe that think process could help in locating the exact point.

Or point could remember also the few words or line, and search for it
straight, up or down.

If it does not exist, point should destroy itself by asking user for it.

-- 
Jean

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