Mmark: set and get marks in your buffers the Vim's way

This package introduces a way to get and set marks on Emacs buffers. It allows you to quickly mark a location in a buffer, and jump back to that exact location.

Why should I use mmark instead of bookmark?

Out of the box, Emacs provides bookmarks to save/restore locations. But this is not enough to me: usually, I mark several locations in the same buffer and jump between them. AFAIK, bookmarks do not provide the ability to mark several positions in the same buffer, which mmark does.

Is mmark production ready?

This is quick: no.

Why mmark?

The name is also chosen for quick access: there are few packages that are named mm* and so pressing 3 keys will likely bring you to this package ;).

How to use it

mmark has 3 main entry points:

• mmark-set, which reads a char from the minibuffer and records the position in the current buffer;
• mmark-get, which jumps to the defined position when getting the proper char;
• mmark-mode, that shows all saved marks in all the buffers in a tabulated-list mode.

In mmark-mode, one should select the interesting entry and then uses:

• g to refresh the buffer,
• d to remove a mark,
• <return> to jump to that mark.

Usually, you want to add this to your Emacs configuration:

(require 'mmark)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c m s") 'mmark-set)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c m g") 'mmark-get)

to make it quicker to set/get a mark.