Goto Last Change Goto the point of the most recent edit in the buffer. When repeated, goto the second most recent edit, etc. Negative argument, C-u -, for reverse direction. Works by looking into buffer-undo-list to find points of edit. You would probably like to bind this command to a key. For example in your ~/.emacs: (require 'goto-chg) (global-set-key [(control ?.)] 'goto-last-change) (global-set-key [(control ?,)] 'goto-last-change-reverse) Works with emacs-19.29, 19.31, 20.3, 20.7, 21.1, 21.4, 22.1 and 23.1 Works with XEmacs-20.4 and 21.4 (but see todo about `last-command' below) -------------------------------------------------------------------- History Ver 1.7.5 2022-01-04 Axel Foesman, Stefan Kangas Consider all entries in undo-tree changesets, bump license to GPL3+ Ver 1.7.4 2020-10-08 Vasilij Schneidermann Remove hard dependency on undo-tree Ver 1.7.3 2019-01-07 Vasilij Schneidermann Fix errors when used with persistent undo Ver 1.7.2 2018-01-05 Vasilij Schneidermann Fix byte-compiler warnings again Ver 1.7.1 2017-12-31 Vasilij Schneidermann Fix byte-compiler warnings Ver 1.7 2017-09-17 Vasilij Schneidermann Make it work with undo-tree-mode (see ) Ver 1.6 2013-12-12 David Andersson Add keywords; Cleanup comments Ver 1.5 2013-12-11 David Andersson Autoload and document `goto-last-change-reverse' Ver 1.4 2008-09-20 David Andersson Improved property change description; Update comments. Ver 1.3 2007-03-14 David Andersson Added `goto-last-change-reverse' Ver 1.2 2003-04-06 David Andersson Don't let repeating error depthen glc-probe-depth. Ver 1.1 2003-04-06 David Andersson Zero arg describe changes. Negative arg go back. Autoload. Remove message using nil in stead of an empty string. Ver 1.0 2002-05-18 David Andersson Initial version -------------------------------------------------------------------- todo: Rename "goto-chg.el" -> "gotochange.el" or "goto-chgs" ? todo: Rename function goto-last-change -> goto-last-edit ? todo: Rename adjective "-last-" -> "-latest-" or "-most-recent-" ? todo: There are some, maybe useful, funcs for region undo in simple.el in emacs 20. Take a look. todo: Add functionality to visit changed point in text order, not only in chronological order. (Naa, highlight-changes-mode does that). todo: Inverse indication that a change has been saved or not todo: Highlight the range of text involved in the last change? todo: See session-jump-to-last-change in session.el? todo: Unhide invisible text (e.g. outline mode) like isearch do. todo: XEmacs sets last-command to `t' after an error, so you cannot reverse after "No furter change info". Should we bother? todo: Try distinguish "No further change info" (end of truncated undo list) and "No further changes" (end of a complete undo list). --------------------------------------------------------------------