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Is it possible save a bunch of point locations into registers and then navigate through them with a preview buffer?
I have tried getting along with helm-all-mark-rings and evil-jumper, but neither really provide what I am looking for. Currently I just set a bunch of registers to points of interest and fumble my way through jumping back through all of them after I forget which register holds what.
Emacs provides a preview by default, ever since Emacs 24.4.
Just wait a moment after typing C-xrj and the preview will be displayed.
NEWS.24 details the change:
*** All interactive commands that read a register (
copy-to-register, etc.) now display a temporary window afterregister-preview-delayseconds that summarizes existing registers. To disable this, set that option to nil. Interactive commands that read registers and want to make use of this should useregister-read-with-previewto read register names.
M-x report-emacs-bug to propose that some of the surrounding text be provided in the preview for context? It would seem like a good enhancement.