From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple requirement, so simple don't know how to search Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:36:34 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <95734.2038.qm@web63001.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <87fx5qs3db.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264701617 11334 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2010 18:00:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:00:17 +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 Jan 28 19:00:10 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 1NaYdR-0002zz-Ao for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:58:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYdQ-0003Ig-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYZ6-0007By-6q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYZ1-00078f-6I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:53:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56736 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYZ1-00078Q-05 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:53:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:61887) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaYZ0-0003du-Jd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaYYz-0007Kl-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:53:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaYP1-0002rH-CC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:43:35 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:43:35 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:43:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71547 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > > Of course, that won't switch to other files. But emacs has bookmarks, > too. See > > ,----[ (info "(emacs)Bookmarks") ] > | "Bookmarks" are somewhat like registers in that they record positions > | you can jump to. Unlike registers, they have long names, and they > | persist automatically from one Emacs session to the next. The > | prototypical use of bookmarks is to record "where you were reading" in > | various files. > `---- > If using bookmarks do consider the excellent bookmark+ extensions. It makes bookmarks work with most fancy files such as info pages, web pages in w3m and so forth, in addition you can tag and group bookmarks - recommended.