Re: Stack of bookmarks

[Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>]

Hi!

> Quite often while I'm browsing through source code I would like to
> remember the current position to return to it later after having
> looked for something else. I know that this can be achieved with
> bookmarks. What I would like to have is a generalization of this:
> instead of only returning once, I would like to do this recursively,
> i.e., to maintain a stack of bookmarks. So somehow like
> 
> L1: push-current-location-to-bookmarks
> L2: push-current-location-to-bookmarks
> L3: push-current-location-to-bookmarks
> pop-current-location-from-bookmarks ;; arrive again at L3
> pop-current-location-from-bookmarks ;; arrive again at L2
> pop-current-location-from-bookmarks ;; arrive again at L1
> 
> At the end this would be somehow similar to the "pop-tag-mark"
> command, with the difference, that I can remember and go back to
> arbitrary locations in the code. Has someone an idea?

I use pop-global-mark for this purpose, bound to C-x C-SPACE here. You
can also call it by giving a prefix argument to set-mark-command: C-u
C-SPACE. 

HTH, 

Anselm


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