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Xah Lee  
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 More options Jul 7 2012, 6:48 am
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 03:48:53 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Jul 7 2012 6:48 am
Subject: Re: Tips for quick jumping back and forth
On Jul 6, 10:43 pm, C K Kashyap <ckkash...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Emacs friends,

> I need some tips for quick jumping around. As in, say I'm editing a line
> and need to go up a couple of paragraphs to edit something and then resume
> at my original position.
> The way I used to accomplish this in Vi was using mm to mark the current
> position into m register and then go somewhere and come back by pressing 'm

> Now, I know that in emacs I can do it using C-x-r-<SPC> to mark a position
> into a register and then jump back to it usng C-x-r-j ... is there a better
> way? Rather, what's a better way?

> Regards,
> Kashyap

i've tried all ways in past years, including custom elisp that push
marks. But i found split windows to be best.

e.g. split window. Go to where you wanna be. When done, unsplit.

give split/unsplit a easy key. e.g. Alt+3, Alt+4 in ergoemacs.

 Xah


 
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