[TxMt] Re: jump back to previous location

Gerd Knops gerti-textmate at bitart.com
Mon Sep 22 16:04:30 UTC 2014


Seconded! A long time ago I used an editor that had this feature (Edison on Atari ST/TT), that was tremendously useful.

I think I requested that feature several times over the years. If TM wouldn't be written mostly in C++ (gag) I long since would have added this and a whole slew of features.

Gerd

> On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Matt Neuburg <matt at tidbits.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a feature suggestion. I've thought about this for years but it has only just occurred to me to say something about it.
> 
> As you know, I use TextMate to write books. Big books with big chapters. So it often happens that I edit a chapter, then jump to an earlier / later bit of that same chapter to make some change entailed by what I was just writing. Now I want to "go back" to where I was before.
> 
> That's the suggestion. TextMate should _automatically_ maintain "bookmarks" for the location of the two most recent edit locations (places where I actually typed or deleted text). Thus, I could use the bookmarks feature to jump back to where I was before.
> 
> Just an idea. (A really great idea!) m.
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