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27.0.50; Feature request: provide the opposite of xref-pop-marker-stack

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, yyoncho <yyoncho <at> gmail.com>, 38797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38797: 27.0.50; Feature request: provide the opposite of xref-pop-marker-stack
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:39:51 +0300

On 24.10.2021 10:54, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> - Regarding the names of the commands, some alternatives:
>>
>> * xref-rewind-history? It's a play on "fast forward". A bit cryptic,
>>    perhaps.
>> * xref-go-back and xref-go-forward? xref--history is fine the name of the
>>    variable, but the purpose of the commands seems obvious enough even
>>    without "history" in them.
> Two different naming conventions are in use already:
> 
>    Info-history-back
>    Info-history-forward
> 
>    help-go-back
>    help-go-forward
> 
> Choosing any of those would be fine.

That reminds me of a potential feature: saving the history of searches 
and going back/forward between them, in the manner of help-go-back and 
help-go-forward (maybe even with same keybindings).

From that perspective, we could choose the names in advance. Either

  xref-go-back/forward and xref-history-back/forward

or, I suppose

  xref-back-history/forward-history and xref-searches-back/forward

...something like that.

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