Is it possible to jump to previous position of cursor somehow (and to previous of previous of previous too)? For example, I switched to definition of a symbol or used incremental search and want to go back a few times.

that's what the jump-list is for in evil

if you aren't using evil you can pop marks, I think?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mark-Ring.html

@chris pop-global-mark is a bit crude. It works for switching back to previous buffer but doesn't accurately remember previous positions of cursor in the same buffer. Thank you, it's better than nothing so I will find uses for that.

@ghsgd2 if you're using evil mode, I suggest evil-jump-backward. Typically bound to C-o, I believe.

Theoretically C-i takes you back forward, but it doesn't work for me.

C-i doesn't work because of some obscure emacs stuff

you can get it to work with a hack

(keyboard-translate ?\C-i ?\H-i) (global-set-key [?\H-i] 'evil-jump-forward)

those two lines will reenable C-i

basically, it routes it through the Hyper keymap (which nothing uses because no one really has a Hyper key) and maps something in the hyper keymap to jump forward

I don't remember why that's necessary in the first place though

or if you're on spacemacs you can just use dotspacemacs-distinguish-gui-tab t in the init function

@eggsyntax, @chris Thank you! I think it's time for me to learn evil mode. 🙂

I'm certainly a fan. But I came from vim, so it was a no-brainer for me.

i find the lisp manipulation a little more awkward in spacemacs' lisp mode, but maybe that's just because my paredit muscle memory got really deep

in particular spacemacs seems to lack an equivalent to C-M-d (go down one sexp) which often leaves me feeling lost and just hjkl'ing like a pleb