Re: A feature to go to last edit locations

[Daniel Martín]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 12/02/2023 19:41, Daniel Martín wrote:
>> What do you think?  Third-party packages like goto-last-change.el [2] or
>> session.el [3] (see session-jump-to-last-change) implement this feature
>> in a per-buffer basis, but I wonder if we could do better and implement
>> something that works across buffers.
>
> I agree this kind of feature should work across buffers (and that's my
> main criticism of the global/local marks feature already).
>
> I do wonder though if a separate new stack (with a set of assigned key
> bindings) is a good UI. Maybe we'd integrate it into xref navigation
> command stacks?
>

Yes, the xref navigation stack is exposed via Edit, Go To, Back/Forward,
so perhaps it can be extended to support tracking and going to previous
editing locations, if users enable an option.

Another question is how to track the edit locations efficiently.  A
naive implementation would be to add a function to
after-change-functions if the xref setting is enabled.