From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Le Wang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:59:33 +0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d042c6477b32bd204c45ccd91 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341802788 2126 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2012 02:59:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 02:59:48 +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 Mon Jul 09 04:59:48 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 1So4CR-0004PP-Cs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:59:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1So4CQ-000756-H7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1So4CJ-00074z-BN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1So4CH-0004Pw-9X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169]:49964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1So4CG-0004Pc-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: by lbjn8 with SMTP id n8so10022036lbj.0 for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:59:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Ffx4c9k0sqZrOg47kgvpaDvdtu9PwRDESAmQr+/MSHk=; b=VoZdlg5QKdstjfapfAWP81b3D6S+25d2TQ103SK9LzqKs8N/3K2sSgynVYv+KzdIIZ TPfCXsiGon/Y2DlUFSvIeW3XTZhxPXUXZVwc3rdHz/M+FRsyM2TRguyX5l23XUX+mi1J TjGPLnsn3dA5O/frhqh8EJ8Sh2QWeyXNENGbRXWdUbXJs9Jpz9uvi0+3A4Fghu/fjKA2 Ggf8uobqs7hejJEec67tU9WuDihDj379ukBjYmvp8dkmVpgIyy8oNFfAc2hHgS958v5o kmpFtk0urAeNIDBCvH/pr9E7OJMNRma7EL4fkQCdPTI5gFpNscyyUDi9VqWNRHS6+RWN NRrA== Original-Received: by 10.152.131.9 with SMTP id oi9mr38321953lab.39.1341802773949; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.16.74 with HTTP; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 19:59:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.217.169 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:85739 Archived-At: --f46d042c6477b32bd204c45ccd91 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:43 PM, C K Kashyap wrote: > 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. > I find registers hard to use. Here is a thread I started a while back singing the virtues of session.el: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2011-01/msg00758.html it allows you to jump through all locations in the buffer were you've made a change in reverse chronological order. I've written jump-char https://github.com/lewang/jump-char to quickly to quickly go to occurrences of a char close by. Jump-char integrates with ace-jump-mode https://github.com/winterTTr/ace-jump-mode/ , which is better if there are lots of occurrences. The only time I actually use registers is while recording a macro. HTH. -- Le --f46d042c6477b32bd204c45ccd91 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:43 PM, C K Kashyap <= ckkashyap@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Emacs friends,

I need some tips for quick jumping a= round. As in, say I'm editing a line and need to go up a couple of para= graphs to edit something and then resume at my original position.=A0

I find registers hard to use.=A0 Here is a thread I s= tarted a while back singing the virtues of session.el:

http:= //lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2011-01/msg00758.html

it allows you to jump through all locations in the buffer were you'= ve made a change in reverse chronological order.

I've written ju= mp-char https://github.com/= lewang/jump-char to quickly to quickly go to occurrences of a char clos= e by.=A0 Jump-char integrates with ace-jump-mode https://github.com/winterTTr/ace-jump-mode/ , which is better if there are lots of occurrences.

The only time I actually use registers is while recording a macro.
<= br>HTH.

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Le
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