Subject: bug#16692: 24.2; nlinum version 1.2 does not work correctly with indirect buffers

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:13:16 +0200

> From: Mark Lillibridge <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:01:02 -0800
> 
>     Is there a good alternative for editing several places in the same
> file at once?  E.g., a C++ header file with the class part with
> declarations at the top and the inlined member definitions at the end of
> the same file.  I find myself losing one of my places when I have to
> switch to a different buffer and back again.

There are various packages that allow saving and restoring positions,
starting with the mark ring and bookmarks.