From: Rolf Ade <rolf@pointsman.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: goto-line-history should not be buffer local.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:38:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn0xd2sc.fsf@pointsman.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YC5EtpjSJM2vtAmJ@ACM
Hello Alan,
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 01:26:56 +0100, Rolf Ade wrote:
>> Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:
>
>> > Who are the people who would set the option back to buffer local
>> > history?
>
>> I will do. (Would prefer it's the default.)
>
>> What meaning have a certain line number from one buffer in another
>> buffer?
>
> When, for example, you accidentally run goto-line in the wrong buffer.
> When you switch to the buffer you wanted, you don't want to have to type
> in the whole line number again.
>
> When you have several versions of the same file, which happens in SW
> development, you may want to goto-line to the same position in a
> different version, in a different buffer.
>
> A third case, which is what got on my nerves last weekend, is when you
> are repeatedly killing a buffer and loading the same file again, so as
> to clear caches, and so on. You want to go to the same place at each
> new loading, so as to do testing.
Thanks for explaning. I didn't thought about those cases but see now
why you are glad about a global goto-line history for them.
> I'm curious as to why somebody would want buffer local goto-line
> history. How often does one repeat the same goto-line in the same
> buffer, and how does a buffer local history help?
When I valgrind an app I get line nummers from the output of the memory
debugger. Often the stack trace spread over several source files. While
looking around in the relevant files I would be glad for a local
goto-line history.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-14 19:18 goto-line-history should not be buffer local Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-14 23:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-14 23:31 ` Richard Copley
2021-02-15 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2021-02-15 21:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-16 11:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-16 17:13 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-16 20:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-16 22:52 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-16 22:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-18 0:26 ` Rolf Ade
2021-02-18 10:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 11:04 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-02-18 11:38 ` Rolf Ade [this message]
2021-02-18 10:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-18 11:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-16 22:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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