[TxMt] Re: jump back to previous location

[Allan Odgaard]

I think the feature requested here is a bit fuzzy.

Matt wants to do multiple edits in location A, then go to location B, do 
multiple edits, and have a way to get back to location A. Did I get that 
right? There is a current bookmark implementation, but you need to set 
them explicitly with ⌘F2 and can jump to next/previous with F2/⇧F2.

Elia wants to “scroll back” and says (about the poor man’s 
version) “works only if there had been an edit”, so it seems where 
to scroll back to is “where I was last, regardless of wether or not I 
did any edits”. So the definition of where to scroll back to is 
unclear to me.

My interpretation of Gerd’s request (from earlier) is that each time 
the caret moves more than a line (after an edit), the position is added 
to the stack. But I am not sure if this would be a satisfying heuristic. 
There should probably be some collapsing of locations based on 
distance/within the view port.

Gerd: If you do have a clear definition of how it should work, please 
let me know.


On 22 Sep 2014, at 18:07, Elia Schito wrote:

> +1 from here too
>
> I resort for the poor man's version (⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z) all the time, but 
> works only
> if there had been an edit of course
>
> Elia
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Gerd Knops 
> <gerti-textmate at bitart.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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