Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth

[Edward at Work <ed2145work@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 6, 2012 10:43:59 PM UTC-7, C K Kashyap wrote:
> Dear Emacs friends,
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> I need some tips for quick jumping around. As in, say I&#39;m editing a line and need to go up a couple of paragraphs to edit something and then resume at my original position. </div>
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> The way I used to accomplish this in Vi was using mm to mark the current position into m register and then go somewhere and come back by pressing &#39;m</div>
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> Now, I know that in emacs I can do it using C-x-r-&lt;SPC&gt; to mark a position into a register and then jump back to it usng C-x-r-j ... is there a better way? Rather, what&#39;s a better way?</div>
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> Regards,</div>
> Kashyap</div>

The simplest solution, provided you know ahead of time you're coming back, is to 1) set the mark (C-space) (set-mark-command), 2) Go do what you need to do wherever you need to do it, & finally 3) return by exchanging the point (where you are) with the mark (C-x C-x) (exchange-point-and-mark).

Edward