From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 03:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6dee899e-8769-4b67-a667-4cd5ac0a3b18@vs10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341659423 29877 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2012 11:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 11:10:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 07 13:10:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SnSty-0002if-EQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:10:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnStw-0001Lv-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2012 07:10:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!vs10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1341659112 27880 127.0.0.1 (7 Jul 2012 11:05:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 11:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: vs10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193325 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85712 Archived-At: On Jul 6, 10:43=A0pm, C K Kashyap wrote: > Dear Emacs friends, > > 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 resum= e > 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- to mark a positio= n > into a register and then jump back to it usng C-x-r-j ... is there a bett= er > way? Rather, what's a better way? > > Regards, > Kashyap i've tried all ways in past years, including custom elisp that push marks. But i found split windows to be best. e.g. split window. Go to where you wanna be. When done, unsplit. give split/unsplit a easy key. e.g. Alt+3, Alt+4 in ergoemacs. Xah