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Point History

Remember the points you visited before as history, and re-visit them quickly.

This package is greatly inspired from point-undo.el and jump-back!.

Whats' This

This package can remember the cursor-position as history, which you stayed before.
When you want to back to the position, you can select the position from the history.

point-history

Features

  • Remember point-info as history which you stayed over point-history-save-timer
  • point-info contains buffer-name, cursor-position, line-content
  • Access the list of point-info's history and select them to visit the position again
  • Preview the buffer quickly in the other window

Setup

Requrements

This package use popwin-el.
You need to install it beforehand.

Settings

git clone and edit your init.el as below.

(add-to-list 'load-path "YOUR PATH")
(require 'point-history)

;; enable minor mode
(point-history-mode t)

;; optional
(global-set-key (kbd "YOUR KEY") 'point-history-show)

Usage

Use M-x point-history-show and you can open point-history-show-buffer with history.
Then you can select the point in history and press Enter to jump to its position.

When you want to change the keymap in point-history-show-buffer, edit init.el as below.

(define-key point-history-show-mode-map (kbd "n") 'point-history-next-line)
(define-key point-history-show-mode-map (kbd "p") 'point-history-prev-line)

Customizable variables

variable usage default value
point-history-max-item-num Max number of points saved in history 100
point-history-show-buffer-height Buffer height to show point-history 30
point-history-save-timer Interval time to save point in history 1
point-history-should-preview show the preview of buffers t

Tips

If you edit point-history-ignore-buffer and point-history-ignore-major-mode, You can ignore points to save into history for specific buffers and major-modes.

(setq point-history-ignore-buffer "^ \\*Minibuf\\|^ \\*point-history-show*")
(setq point-history-ignore-major-mode '(emacs-lisp-mode ruby-mode))

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