From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:49:18 +0530 Message-ID: <81obnsayah.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341641995 24122 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2012 06:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 06:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: C K Kashyap Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 07 08:19:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SnOMu-0005sT-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:19:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnOMs-0004xa-VF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:19:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49711) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnOMm-0004xV-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnOMk-0006rH-9c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:49067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnOMk-0006rB-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: by pbbrp2 with SMTP id rp2so17763356pbb.0 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:19:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6vbMzqsXowY7epVic+MrSvekiDATCfAls+IaRa2G4Q0=; b=lRkUfP5kgGXTEFeR/2d7V+seZ20sDH2LlGAuCXw1dI00NbrPlt/JdBxBZBOAfqkkoW GBxgRcgAoKif8mK5snyENXkvYATyxDdjThRxFcIt9Jqr4O6xlxIbaSM4A6KpM0qD0gvX QzykjsT559r6gWVJBbvdYqKVusmxsCK35P2uBIGFtIaPUDN/Euq/32hrmNM3Xos/2YJ0 RDbcuPSJxRqjp59vm+JZCp/OXgmMsCzdxE7iE+HYvgVIkG6XcDe+wXuEewmB3nMwhAfM EsZ9fb3qX4O2k10jddDms77lXVw4kl3dMxmQHIfJR5QVs0/f9W+eGRozvdlIeBFYInED DGug== Original-Received: by 10.68.233.193 with SMTP id ty1mr42708240pbc.47.1341641974979; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.241.220.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id np8sm23307394pbc.71.2012.07.06.23.19.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:19:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (C. K. Kashyap's message of "Sat, 7 Jul 2012 11:13:59 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.160.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85709 Archived-At: C K Kashyap writes: > Dear Emacs friends, > > I need some tips for quick jumping around. As in, say I'm editing a > line and need to go up a couple of paragraphs to edit something and > then resume at my original position.=C2=A0 > The way I used to accomplish this in Vi was using mm to mark the > current position into m register and then go somewhere and come back > by pressing 'm > > Now, I know that in emacs I can do it using C-x-r- to mark a > position into a register and then jump back to it usng C-x-r-j ... is > there a better way? Rather, what's a better way? C-h K C-x C-SPC It will land you in an Info node. See that node and the node previous to it. > Regards, > Kashyap > > --=20