Questions tagged [mark-ring]
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How to switch back and forth between two locations in a buffer
Sometimes I find myself frequently alternating between two functions that I am editing in conjunction with each other. In these situations, it is tedious and painful to keep on doing a C-s <...
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Effectively using the mark ring
I have used the mark to select regions of a buffer. For example, I know the sequence C-<space> C-s foo can be used to select all text between the current point and the point after a search for ...
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How do I view the mark ring?
Is there a command to view the entries in the mark ring, similar to listing buffers with C-x C-b or viewing the kill ring with the function browse-kill-ring or viewing the jump list (in info mode) ...
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pop-mark not working as expected
I have some sample code like this:
(defun some-function ()
(interactive)
(push-mark)
(goto-char (point-min))
; do some stuff
(pop-mark))
Now I'm expecting pop-mark to get me back to the ...
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How to automatically set marks on all of the edited lines?
I would like to automatically set marks on all of the edited lines so that I can go back to any of my previous edited lines using helm-mark-ring.
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