Post AcfydF55mNs6h5JReC by louis@emacs.ch
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(DIR) Post #Acfyd8oZ4v5PG5XA3M by carcosa@emacs.ch
2023-12-10T15:43:13Z
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I'm remarkably surprised to see that so many people's Emacs workflow depends on registers. I think in the 30 years I've used Emacs, I've used registers maybe 5 times.I really do think there should be a backwards-compatibility option that works, but it also makes me think there's an XKCD for everything.https://xkcd.com/1172/
(DIR) Post #AcfydB7mURe6QGXXHc by timthelion@emacs.ch
2023-12-10T16:32:06Z
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@carcosa I just found out about registers, they sound usefull though...
(DIR) Post #AcfydCoiCJa3fhdKq0 by stevoooo@emacs.ch
2023-12-10T16:53:42Z
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@timthelion @carcosa registers are indeed a wonderful thing, because you can put so many different types of things in them, and because setting and getting them is so fast. The problem with this change is the need for the extra return key - we might as well just use bookmarks.
(DIR) Post #AcfydF55mNs6h5JReC by louis@emacs.ch
2023-12-10T19:25:03Z
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@stevoooo @timthelion @carcosa I love to use registers as bookmarks since I jump around code a lot.Also:"If you use ‘C-x r j’ to go to a saved position, but the buffer it was saved from has been killed, ‘C-x r j’ tries to create the buffer againby visiting the same file. Of course, this works only for buffers that were visiting files."That's the biggest USP of position registers IMHO.
(DIR) Post #AcgIBif6Cg9fPbJ9to by stevoooo@emacs.ch
2023-12-10T23:04:15Z
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@louis @timthelion @carcosa yeah, that's a really useful feature. I initialise a bunch of registers in my init file for quick jumping to a variety of remote hosts using tramp/SSH. Quicker than using bookmarks which is great for something that I do many times a day.