conao3/point-history

Show the history of points you visited before

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.

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))

Extensions

• ivy-point-history: point-history with ivy interface