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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Go back in emacs
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:42:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85r6bbec6i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 402ddc25-2044-41f8-9edb-0276bf295be5@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com

brieweb <brian@brie.com> writes:

> Say I follow a symbol with "M-." that was generated with the etags
> command. How do I go back after following the tag?

How about reading the function documentation?


C-h k M-. 

gives me:

[...]

A marker representing the point when this command is invoked is pushed
onto a ring and may be popped back to with M-*.
Contrast this with the ring of marks gone to by the command.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05 18:09 Go back in emacs brieweb
2008-06-05 22:42 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-06-06 15:21 ` Peter Jones

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