Re: List line numbers for easy navigation

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:38:44 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, April 19th, 2024 at 8:32 AM, Stephen Berman
> <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:23:17 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > On Friday, April 19th, 2024 at 8:14 AM, Stephen Berman
>> > stephen.berman@gmx.net wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:38:53 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I want to have a list of line numbers so that I can easily navigate to them
>> > > > in the current buffer.
>> > >
>> > > (number-sequence 1 (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)))
>> > >
>> > > Steve Berman
>> >
>> > I would like to have a command that adds the current row to the list,
>>
>>
>> Is the current row the line at point? If so, it's already in the list,
>> since the list contains all line numbers in the current buffer, isn't
>> that what you wanted?
>>
>> > then have a command to move from one to the next, etc.
>>
>>
>> To move from one line to the next? C-n. If that's not what you want, can
>> you rephrase?
>
> To move cursor from one row in the list to the next row in the list.
>
>> > I frequently
>> > have to navigate quickly between different parts of a buffer and need
>> > some good commands to do this.
>>
>> What specifically do you mean by different parts?
>>
>> Steve Berman
>
> Suppose I am writing some code at row 1358 and want to check on two functions,
> one starting at row 355, the other at row 589.  I want to go to the row and add
> the current row to the list (Will do this three times).  Then have a command to
> navigate between them.  Call command te get me to the respective row.

You can do this with existing Emacs commands: `M-g M-g' (or `M-g g') to
get prompted for a line number and then jump to it, and then you can use
the mark ring (info "(emacs) Mark Ring") or registers (info "(emacs)
Position Registers") to navigate between positions.  Why reinvent the
wheel?

Steve Berman