From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: simple requirement, so simple don't know how to search Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 07:22:14 -0800 Message-ID: <4D54EB1F2FB441949B8AC66990EF7CF3@us.oracle.com> References: <854om6z93k.fsf@cl-t066-141cl.privatedns.com> <572509.50165.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265037937 13736 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2010 15:25:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Maindoor'" , "'Mario Domenech Goulart'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 16:25:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nby9c-0006us-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:25:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nby9b-0007gb-Pa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:25:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nby87-0007EC-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39711 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nby86-0007Dm-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nby7V-0003JT-Fg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:23:57 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:58431) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nby7U-0003IO-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o11FNDpJ000721 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:23:14 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o11F2JbP011480; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:23:12 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt014.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3957931265037737; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:22:17 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.64.45) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:22:15 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <572509.50165.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Thread-Index: AcqjAiF0k0xeDw4BQmOj63k0td7XUgATygDw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4B66F1E0.015C:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71604 Archived-At: Thanks for the info, but registers limit the marked entries and I will not be able to cycle through them. So that is out of the question. After looking around I found thing-cmds.el . The description looks good but I need to try it out. I'm looking for something like: press F2 -> put the current position where cursor is in a list with limit of 20 entries. press F3 -> go forward in the list. press F4 -> go backward in the list. I wrote thing-cmds.el. Dunno if it will help you here - it's not clear to me what you really want to do. I thought previously that what you wanted was essentially bookmarks. Now you say you just want to move through a list, that is, move forward a sexp (list element) at a time. For that you can use `C-M-f', `C-M-b', and so on. What you mean by your description of F2 is also unclear to me. People's replies to you have been all over the map, which is an indication that maybe your requirement isn't well specified. ;-) Most replies take the need to be to bounce around among predefined positions. Hence people have suggested marks (and global marks), registers, and bookmarks, all of which let you do that.