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jump to the previous cursor position [message #266882]

Thu, 04 December 2008 03:54

Michal Rehak

Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

is there a way to jump back to the previous cursor position?

For example: I click successively on lines 10, 20, 30. Now I am on line
30 and when I press Alt+left I want the cursor to go to line 20. After
pressing Alt+left again I want cursor to go to line 10.

With my current configuration this is not happening. Does eclipse support
this functionality?

Thanks,
Michal

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #266884 is a reply to message #266882]

Thu, 04 December 2008 07:38

Felix Dorner

Messages: 676
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Did you play around with the small arrow symbols in the right hand side
of the toolbar? I'm not sure if these jump to the last "editing"
position though..

Michal Rehak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to jump back to the previous cursor position?
>
> For example: I click successively on lines 10, 20, 30. Now I am on line
> 30 and when I press Alt+left I want the cursor to go to line 20. After
> pressing Alt+left again I want cursor to go to line 10.
> With my current configuration this is not happening. Does eclipse
> support this functionality?
>
> Thanks,
> Michal
>
>
>
>

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #266894 is a reply to message #266884]

Fri, 05 December 2008 06:19

Michal Rehak

Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Thanks for the reply.
There is button for Last Edit Location, but it only works for (last) edit
location. I would like to go back also in case there was no edit on
previous cursor position.

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #266896 is a reply to message #266882]

Fri, 05 December 2008 06:45

Michal Rehak

Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

From the further investigation I think the functionality is there and it
maybe just be the matter of the the proper configuration:
If a cursor position is changed via "Go to Line"(Ctrl+l) or "Quick
Outline" (Ctrl+o) or even from Outline View Alt+left will correctly bring
me back to the previous cursor position.
It is just not creating Navigation History entries when the cursor
position is changed by mouse click or keyboard.

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #266954 is a reply to message #266894]

Mon, 08 December 2008 16:50

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nickboldt+eclipse+newsgroup.gmail.com

CTRL-Q does this too. Note that it's not "last edit in this file" but
"last edit in any file", which can be a pain at times. :(

Michal Rehak wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. There is button for Last Edit Location, but it
> only works for (last) edit location. I would like to go back also in
> case there was no edit on previous cursor position.
>
>
>
>

--
Nick Boldt :: http://wiki.eclipse.org/User:Nickb

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #266962 is a reply to message #266896]

Tue, 09 December 2008 08:05

Michal Rehak

Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

So it looks like functionality is not there.
Would anyone else find it useful?

Does anybody know of a best way to propose this functionality or should I
go straight to the Bugzilla and create Bug?Enhancement ?

Thanks

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #266964 is a reply to message #266962]

Tue, 09 December 2008 08:15

Remy Suen

Messages: 462
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Michal Rehak wrote:
> Does anybody know of a best way to propose this functionality or should
> I go straight to the Bugzilla and create Bug?Enhancement ?

That's the preferred method. These things need to be tracked and
bugzilla is the place for it.

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #266968 is a reply to message #266964]

Tue, 09 December 2008 13:16

Piyush Soni

Messages: 20
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I have been longing this functionality for long now in eclipse :) ...
Something which seems so beautifully done in Visual Studio (2005/2008 -
don't know about older versions.)

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Re: jump to the previous cursor position [message #1405121 is a reply to message #266882]

Wed, 06 August 2014 16:22

Karan Khokar

Messages: 1
Registered: August 2014

Junior Member

Try Alt+Left and Alt+Right Very Happy

Also, I have three buttons on the menu bar icons: (i) left arrow with and asteriskthat goes to last edit, (ii) left arrow that goes to previous cusrosr mark and (iii) right arrow that goes to the next cursor mark. Initially I had only (i) and (iii) but then (ii) appeared somehow (I guess when I hit the drop-down arrow on (iii), but not sure).

Hope this helps.

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