[Geany] small usability suggestion

[Harold Aling]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:38:46 +0200, "Mateusz Mucha" <muszek at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I'm not an experienced programmer and really lazy on top of that, I
> tend to jump to other areas of code quite often.  Example:  I edit
> line 199 at the moment, but want/need to take a look at
> destroy_earth() function, copy two lines of code and jump back to
> where I was straight away.
> 
> It would be cool if there was some keyword combo or an icon to move me
> back to where I was before I used the "functions browser" on the left
> for the last time (and perhaps the last time before that if the combo
> is used twice").  It should ignore jumps achieved by using arrows and
> pgup/pgdn.
> 
> Or perhaps a similar feature is impremented alredy?

I've exactly the same request! 

What if the "Symbol sidebar" would add the cursor location to the back/forward history before moving focus to the selected function/location in the sidebar? Then you would be able to press 'back' to return to the previous position.

-H-

> 
> --
> regards,
> muszek - jerzy - Mateusz Mucha