From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Babcock Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can I move back to the last edit position? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:20:28 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094862293 14127 80.91.224.253 (11 Sep 2004 00:24:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 11 02:24:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5vh5-00014X-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 02:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5vmU-00021n-NH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:30:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!0053d051!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Xnews/06.07.17 Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.100.203.44 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1094862028 67.100.203.44 (Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:20:28 PDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:20:28 PDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125258 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20613 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20613 Peter Boettcher wrote in news:m3isamxo11.fsf@coyote.llan.ll.mit.edu: > I use a function written by David Andersson called goto-chg. It steps > back through the undo list to find the last position of changed text. > Try that. > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=goto-chg.el&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=w > un0uyustv.fsf%40symsoft.se&rnum=1 Thanks. I wasn't the original poster, but I've wanted the same thing. Goto-chg looks like it does exactly what was requested.