bookmarks, was Re: lynx-dev Neat EMACS feature would speed LYNX usage

[clemens fischer]

> RobertM:

> > But wouldn't it be FAR FASTER to simply
> > have assigned, say, x to some position in
> > foo.txt, and then via some super-quick-to-do
> > command, eg ":gx", and you're there!
> > 
> > JUST LIKE THAT!
> > 
> > Unless everyone finds this idea completely
> > worthless, please add it to some (official)
> > "to-do" list.
> 
> Errm, isn't that sort of what bookmarks are for?
> Though of course they don't provide for random anchors but.
> 
> Also how would that work on a remote document over which you have no
> control. 
> e.g. u assign X to the 57th line of some document , then when you
> neext visit that document via your buffr thingy it's only got 40
> lines?

so be it!  many documents aren't static anymore, though, that's where i see
the biggest problem.  i would love bookmarks and often wished i had them,
but basically this could only work if those bookmarks pointed into the
cash-buffer.

i can see bookmarks only as regular-expressions like ctags makes them.

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clemens fischer

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