From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Jumping from one position to other position Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:11:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87h7oybkdl.fsf@web.de> References: <87sg8jvr7i.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26774"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:jZk32mjcT0bAlm2QCKa9x/k9lEU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 07 00:16:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1km3GM-0006pn-0P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:16:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55948 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km3GI-0006j9-Li for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km3FF-0006iI-SN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:15:14 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:40902 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km3FA-0008El-Sf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1km3F7-0005Dm-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:15:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126120 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > Maybe I just do not know how to use built-in functions like C-SPC > C-SPC to leave mark, I use it all the time, but maybe I miss > something. What do you do when you need the mark for, well, marking, because you need to copy and paste between the two positions? Using the mark reminds me of the more general concept of the global-mark-ring, with a bit of tuning one can also use it to find back to recent positions conveniently, even across buffers. Regards, Michael.