How do I set marks in Emacs à la Vim?

Question

I'd like to be able to set multiple marks in Emacs like Vim does. In Vim you might press m B and that would set a mark at that line in the file. Later pressing ' b will then move your cursor back to that line. You can make multiple marks with m{a-zA-Z} Is there a way to have multiple marks like this in Emacs?

Answer 1

From Emacs documentation :

C-x r SPC r

• Record the position of point and the current buffer in register r (point-to-register).

C-x r j r

• Jump to the position and buffer saved in register r (jump-to-register).

But if you want your positions to persist automatically from one Emacs session to the next, you should use Bookmarks :

C-x r m RET

• Set the bookmark for the visited file, at point.

C-x r m bookmark RET

• Set the bookmark named bookmark at point (bookmark-set).

C-x r b bookmark RET

• Jump to the bookmark named bookmark (bookmark-jump).

C-x r l

• List all bookmarks (list-bookmarks).

M-x bookmark-save

• Save all the current bookmark values in the default bookmark file.