From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Felix E. Klee" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Make EMACS Remember two Locations per Buffer Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <79e467af-0806-4b6e-878f-b6b59a7e253f@f26g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291880680 19086 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 07:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:44:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 08:44:36 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 1PQbB6-00035j-1J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:44:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQbB5-0003SS-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:44:35 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f26g2000vbm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.50.208.251 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1286790760 25983 127.0.0.1 (11 Oct 2010 09:52:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f26g2000vbm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.50.208.251; posting-account=_QalowoAAACdr6sX445IwCQAsFmTdEHe User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181714 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:76840 Archived-At: Here is something that has annoyed me almost forever when using EMACS. Is there a solution? An example scenario: 1. I open a buffer. 2. I split the screen vertically: C-x 2 3. I work on the buffer, appreciating that I can compare two parts of it, one on the top, one on the bottom. 4. In the bottom window, I want to temporarily switch to another buffer, and then return to the contents it was displaying before. Unfortunately, this is *not* possible! At least as far as I know... What is possible: a) I switch to another buffer. b) I switch back to the original buffer. c) I manually return to the location I was editing before. Why isn't it possible for EMACS to remember that location? Or is it?