From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs navigation mode Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:04:45 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <33545005.post@talk.nabble.com> <874nt2j5zu.fsf@gnuvola.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333397114 24633 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2012 20:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:05:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 02 22:05:13 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 1SEnV3-0001KV-5I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:05:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SEnV2-0004lP-G3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:05:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed1.swip.net!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="ePtxJaRXJPFeIWBMlKfZaA"; logging-data="6766"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18oEajF7s3Em6gMEZ5nwMO+" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eXvtXkR2j7Ufdx0OasClAoq1urE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191846 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:84261 Archived-At: In article , Deniz Dogan wrote: > On 2012-04-02 21:20, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > > () Earendil > > () Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:01:15 -0700 (PDT) > > > > remembers positions in buffers you were > > watching long enough > > > > I don't understand what this means. > > Could you give an example of this behavior? > > Is "long enough" configurable in some way? > > > > If you've been viewing a buffer portion for longer than N seconds, store > a rough estimate of the buffer and the position in a data structure > somewhere for later use. In Emacs, the way this is addressed is that commands that are likely to cause a big change in buffer position usually save the previous position automatically in the mark ring. For instance, type M-> to jump to the end of the buffer, and it will display "Mark set". The same thing happens when you perform a search. You can then walk back through the mark ring by typing C-u C-space repeatedly until you get to the saved position you care about. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***