Re: A feature to go to last edit locations

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> writes:

> On February 13, 2023 8:49:46 PM GMT+01:00, Michael Welsh Duggan 
> <mwd@md5i.com> wrote:
>>Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:
>>
>>> Some IDEs and text editors provide a feature to go to the position of
>>> the last edit location across all buffers.  For example, in Eclipse or
>>> IntelliJ IDEA, this feature is under Navigate, Last Edit Location.  In
>>> Vim, this feature is called a "change list jump" [1], but it seems to
>>> work in a per-buffer basis.
>>>
>>> The closest thing in Emacs is pop-global-mark, but it's not quite the
>>> same feature. The global mark ring requires that the user sets the mark
>>> in advance, and most editing commands do not set the mark.  Information
>>> about last edit locations is already kept in buffer-undo-list, but this
>>> list is per-buffer and does not contain timestamps, so generating a
>>> "global" list for all buffers out of this data structure does not seem
>>> very possible or efficient at the moment; it may need a new data
>>> structure, perhaps at the C level.
>>
>>I often want to jump to the last change I made in a buffer, but I've
>>never wanted this across buffers.  The method I use for this, burned
>>into my fingertips, is "C-_ C-SPC C-_", which is undo, set mark, undo.
>
> I use exactly this same method (undo-redo). It is not very
> confortable, so any function to mimic part of this may be useful...

Try the goto-chg package. It just uses the undo ring to find previous
locations. Sometime it’s a bit buggy when you use lsps with save
actions, but in general it works really well.

Best wishes,
Arne
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