Re: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting]

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> The mark ring marks of course aren't necessarily in display order,
> they're in the order you set them, so without any visual differentiation
> between the different mark ring mark highlights, you can't really tell
> from the display which mark you'll end up at when you hit C-u C-SPC, you
> just know it's one of 'em - once I could see the marks, I found myself
> wanting "jump to next/prev mark relative to point, in display order"
> more than "pop mark".


Interesting, the visual clues are very powerful and I guess they can 
twist your memory. Maybe it is hard to keep a more abstract view of the 
marks simultaneously?