Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com> writes:

 > I need some tips for quick jumping around. As in, say I'm editing a 
line and
 > need to go up a couple of paragraphs to edit something and then 
resume at my
 > original position.
 > 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 'm
 >
 > Now, I know that in emacs I can do it using C-x-r-<SPC> 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's a better way?

You can try this package:
https://github.com/dgutov/point-stack/blob/master/point-stack.el

It's a more general solution for back-and-forth navigation, but you can
also save any position manually with a hotkey.

--Dmitry