I'd like to be able to set multiple marks in Emacs like Vim does. In Vim you might press m B and that would set a mark at that line in the file. Later pressing ' b will then move your cursor back to that line. You can make multiple marks with m{a-zA-Z} Is there a way to have multiple marks like this in Emacs?
A:
Have a look at this: http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/emacs18/emacs_13.html
Yeah I'm looking for random access to my marks. That mark ring is a stack.
MDCore
2010-09-22 15:27:28
+2
A:
You can use what Emacs calls registers. The documentation explains them better than I can.
High Performance Mark
2010-09-22 15:25:32
Thanks. For a bonus multiplier, do you know of any way/plugin to highlight marked lines?
MDCore
2010-09-22 15:30:35
No, no way that I know of. There are commands, such as `highlight-phrase` and `highlight-regexp`, which may be useful, but nothing like `highlight-register` in the standard build.
High Performance Mark
2010-09-22 15:37:30
Found something close to it: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BetterRegisters
MDCore
2010-09-22 15:49:07
@MDCore: I've been using Emacs for donkeys years, but still learn something new every time I check this tag on SO. Thanks.
High Performance Mark
2010-09-22 16:20:47
+1
A:
From Emacs documentation :
C-x r SPC r
- Record the position of point and the current buffer in register r (point-to-register).
C-x r j r
- Jump to the position and buffer saved in register r (jump-to-register).
But if you want your positions to persist automatically from one Emacs session to the next, you should use Bookmarks :
C-x r m RET
- Set the bookmark for the visited file, at point.
C-x r m bookmark RET
- Set the bookmark named bookmark at point (bookmark-set).
C-x r b bookmark RET
- Jump to the bookmark named bookmark (bookmark-jump).
C-x r l
- List all bookmarks (list-bookmarks).
M-x bookmark-save
- Save all the current bookmark values in the default bookmark file.
Jérôme Radix
2010-09-23 10:55:47