Re: pushing and popping the mark

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

To answer my own question, with an alternative, below:

On Saturday, 9 May 2015 12:18:39 UTC+1, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> I have found myself doing some repetitive editing recently that I am sure can be optimised.
> 
> Let's say I have a chunk of existing text (in the middle of the buffer), and a bunch of new text (at the bottom of the buffer) with bits of text that I want to selectively kill and then yank into the existing text.
> 
> So the workflow looks like this:
> 
> 1. go to "new text", kill some relevant text
> 2. go to "existing text", yank
> 3. repeat
> 
> 
> In terms of keys strokes this means:
> 
> 1. `C-U SPACE` (now near relevant "new text") then unavoidable manual keystrokes to select/kill
> 2. `C-SPACE C-SPACE`, then `C-U SPACE` (does nothing) to add this location to the mark ring and ignore that mark in the ring.
> 3. `C-U SPACE` (now near relevant "existing text") then unavoidable manual keystrokes to yank
> 4. `C-SPACE C-SPACE`, then `C-U SPACE` (does nothing) to add this location to the mark ring
> 
> Actually, my fingers can confused and end up just using pageup/down :-/
> 
> Obviously, steps 2 and 4 are undesirable. Is there a single command that I can perform to effectively save the current point, then go to the second mark in the mark ring?


The workflow can also be optimised by opening a second frame into the same buffer. That helps a lot because `C-x o` then jumps to approximately the locations where I was wanting to set the marks anyway. However, it then requires me to split my screen... which is sometimes not ideal.