Re: vim's jumplist equivalent in emacs?

[Holger Sparr <sparr+usenet@mfk.tu-dresden.de>]

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006, "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> wrote:

> Emacs has no jump list unfortunately.  Almost every operation will set
> the mark though, as Mathias said.
>
> If you do a search you can get back to where you were using C-u C-spc.
> There are other useful operations.  If you find a tag with M-. then C-u
> C-spc will return you to where you were.  Though in Emacs C-u C-spc
> will not return you to where you were when opening a file.

You could push the mark before opening another file (advice the opening
function) and use the global-mark-ring with C-x C-SPC to jump back.

Holger

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