18.1 Saving Positions in Registers
Saving a position records a place in a buffer so that you can move
back there later. Moving to a saved position switches to that buffer
and moves point to that place in it.
- C-x r <SPC> r
- Save position of point in register r (
point-to-register).
- C-x r j r
- Jump to the position saved in register r (
jump-to-register).
To save the current position of point in a register, choose a name
r and type C-x r <SPC> r. The register r
retains the position thus saved until you store something else in that
register.
The command C-x r j r moves point to the position recorded
in register r. The register is not affected; it continues to
hold the same position. You can jump to the saved position any number
of times.
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
again by visiting the same file. Of course, this works only for buffers
that were visiting files.
