Re: What happens to jump list when jumping via exe?

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> > On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:44:02 PM UTC-4, rainy wrote:
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> >> Hi, I'm using 7.3 and when I make a jump via exe, e.g.:
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> >> :exe '/def '.expand('<cword>')
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> >> Previous location does not show up in jump list and instead some random
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> >> locations show up there. Obviously, ctrl-o does not work to jump to
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> >> previous spot.
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> >> Is this a known issue and is there a workaround?
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> >> Thanks!
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> > I found a way to fix this - by setting ' mark (m').
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> You can also use search() instead. It is much more versatile because
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> it has tons of options.
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> call search('def '.expand('<cword>'), 's')


Great, thanks. It is much better then exe. I saw this option in search()
doc but it doesn't say why it's useful so it's easy to miss.

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> Regards,
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> Vlad

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