Re: can I move back to the last edit position?

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote on Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:53:43 +0300:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:49:03PM +0800, Rokia wrote:
>
>>> I think this [moving back to the position of the last edit] is a necessary
>>> and basic function. why cant I find it?
>
> I tend to agree, but I've managed to get along without it for some years.
> You can't find it because it doesn't exist in Emacs.
[...]

I think Eli was right to ask for more details here.  For instance,
Emacs does store the current position of point to the global mark ring
in some circumstances.  So you can jump back to the position of point
before you issued the command that moved it by hitting `C-u C-SPC' --
depending on the command.  That doesn't work for C-n, C-p etc. (I
hardly see how that would be useful), but it does work for M-<,
M-C-a, C-s ...


    Oliver
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