[Geany] small usability suggestion

[Harold Aling]

> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:27:59 +0100, Nick Treleaven
> <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On 07/19/2007 03:47:42 PM, Harold Aling wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> This has recently been added to SVN ;-)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Nick
>

Nick,

The back button only remembers the line number, not the exact cursor location.

Can this be added?


Cheers!

-H-