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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:303193 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Daniel Mart=C3=ADn >> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:41:20 +0100 >>=20 >>=20 >> Some IDEs and text editors provide a feature to go to the position of >> the last edit location across all buffers. For example, in Eclipse or >> IntelliJ IDEA, this feature is under Navigate, Last Edit Location. In >> Vim, this feature is called a "change list jump" [1], but it seems to >> work in a per-buffer basis. >>=20 >> The closest thing in Emacs is pop-global-mark, but it's not quite the >> same feature. > > Emacs also has registers. Yes, but registers still require that users explicitly save the position in a register beforehand. Users may be editing a file, then switch to another file (or to another part of the same file) and then get a bit lost and ask themselves "where is what I was editing before?". If they haven't saved their position in a register or in the mark ring, Emacs can't help them.