From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Holger Sparr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: vim's jumplist equivalent in emacs? Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:17:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1165481183.610837.121580@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1165496555.501169.277080@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165513363 14521 80.91.229.10 (7 Dec 2006 17:42:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 18:42:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsNGU-0005Z3-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:42:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsNGU-00028i-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:42:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: news.dfncis.de yOStP0cqa30990fBxwfHRAEzjTkxiUZcLve0oBKJEa9S+E Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1RGfGtFbrTdgTgO2m0uFVkFbMi4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143727 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39329 Archived-At: On Thu, 07 Dec 2006, "Robert Thorpe" wrote: > Emacs has no jump list unfortunately. Almost every operation will set > the mark though, as Mathias said. > > If you do a search you can get back to where you were using C-u C-spc. > There are other useful operations. If you find a tag with M-. then C-u > C-spc will return you to where you were. Though in Emacs C-u C-spc > will not return you to where you were when opening a file. You could push the mark before opening another file (advice the opening function) and use the global-mark-ring with C-x C-SPC to jump back. Holger --