Jumplist

When a motion takes you far away, yumete notes where you were. That list of places is the jumplist, and it works across files.

Key	Effect
C-o	back to where the last jump came from
C-i or Tab	forward again
C-s	add the current position to the list by hand

A new jump after going back drops the places ahead of you, and the list keeps the last 100. If a place is in a file you have since closed, C-o says so instead of going there.

What makes a jump

• gg, ge, a count before G (20G), and :<line>
• searching with /, ?, n and N
• following a heading in the outline, or a path:line with gf
• gd and the places gr lists
• ]d [d, ]f [f and the other ] [ jumps to a diagnostic, function, change or conflict
• gw, gx and gz (the cursor jumps, the view does not move)
• going to a mark with ', and to a change with g.

Switching files with ga, gn, gp or :open does not add a jump.

Marks

A mark is a place you name, to come back to on purpose.

Key	Effect
M a	mark this place as a (m a under the vim keymap)
' a	go back to mark a, opening its file if needed

A mark's name is one letter or digit. Marks are shared by all files, so 'a can take you to another file. In a saved file a mark remembers the line. Marks last until you quit.

Changes

Key	Effect
g.	the last place this file was changed
g; / g,	an older / newer change (vim keymap only)

Each file keeps its own changes, one entry per line, so g; after typing a paragraph moves by the paragraph, not by the character.