On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 15:31:33 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 14:48:07 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> Even if they did, what editor are they using that they can't jump back to where they were?
>
> Geany. You can set a marker but probably the editor should automatically add to location history before the go to start of file key binding is executed.

I use Geany, and I'm no power user, I don't know many key bindings. My way to deal with this is dead stupid: I leave the character cursor where I am and start scrolling. When I want to go back, lArrow rArrow lArrow rArrow...

The screen jumps back to the cursor. Then I scan the screen to see the cursor. It is much easier to spot when I keep it moving with the arrows.

On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 15:14:36 UTC, Dukc wrote:
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> I use Geany, and I'm no power user, I don't know many key bindings. My way to deal with this is dead stupid: I leave the character cursor where I am and start scrolling. When I want to go back, lArrow rArrow lArrow rArrow...

Oh didn't realize you were talking about scrolling to edit, not just to look.

In the case of adding an import a though, there should usually be a start of lexical scope close enough to fit in the same screen with the invocation. Except when adding top-level symbols... I reckon I'd just memoize the line number roughly before scrolling.

On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 15:30:12 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 15:14:36 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>>
>> I use Geany, and I'm no power user, I don't know many key bindings. My way to deal with this is dead stupid: I leave the character cursor where I am and start scrolling. When I want to go back, lArrow rArrow lArrow rArrow...
>
> Oh didn't realize you were talking about scrolling to edit, not just to look.
>
> In the case of adding an import a though, there should usually be a start of lexical scope close enough to fit in the same screen with the invocation. Except when adding top-level symbols... I reckon I'd just memoize the line number roughly before scrolling.

https://www.geany.org/manual/current/#bookmarks

TL;DR version:

Ctrl-M : create or remove bookmark at current line (mnemonic: M for "mark")
Ctrl-, : jump to previous bookmark (mnemonic: on the same key as "<")
Ctrl-. : jump to next bookmark (mnemonic: on the same key as ">")

Please make it happen!