Bookmarks

How do you set one? Can you make more than one? Are they persistent between XEmacs sessions? . . .

= Yes, XEmacs has the ability to create, list, and remember bookmarks. Just a matter of practicising the keystrokes. When would I use it?

• Only when it is a file, you are editing over the course of days. Otherwise, for casual files or short-term ones, I presume not too much reason to use. Even though, XEmacs is more than happy to remember (easily) at least one bookmark per file. (It is even named. Guess what? The same name as the file.)

= This post will explain the first basic bookmark commands. Then, I'll touch on the harder issues, later.

Mark your bookmark: Ctrl-x, r, m, enter.
List bookmarks: Ctrl-x, r, l, enter. (That is a letter L, before the enter.)
Jump to bookmark: Ctrl-x, r, b, name-of-file, enter.

When you list your bookmarks, it is useful to close that buffer. ie. Use the kill buffer command.
Kill buffer: Ctrl-x, k, enter

Platform: Linux
Level: Basic
GlR