[TxMt] Re: jump back to previous location

[Gerd Knops]

> On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
> 
> I think the feature requested here is a bit fuzzy.
> 
[..]
> 
> 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.
> 
Certainly a fuzzy feature... Back then on small screens it was basically "moved more than a line". Now with large windows, it is trickier to find a good metric. Distance in the view port seems to factor in.

Maybe this would work: still record every change in position that is more than a line, but then when going backward/forward in the history discard positions that are currently visible. Of course this may be too much, so it might need to be more like "visible and not more than y lines away from current cursor position".

And I do think the "jump buffer" should span all files, not be limited to the one currently viewed. So say I work in file x, now go to look at something in file y (or even edit there) and "jump back", it should jump back to file x (even if I closed it!). 

And to add extra bells and whistles, there'd be an (optional) visual navigator that shows previous edit locations with context!

Gerd

> 
> 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
>> 
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>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Gerd Knops <gerti-textmate at bitart.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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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