04 May 2026

Jumping to errors in Evil

Recently I realised that it'd be really nice if jumping to errors would store the previous location in the Evil jump list. These definitions do just that

(evil-define-motion mes/evil-goto-next-error (count)
  :jump t
  (unless (bound-and-true-p flymake-mode) (signal 'search-failed nil))
  (flymake-goto-next-error count))
(evil-define-motion mes/evil-goto-prev-error (count)
  :jump t
  (unless (bound-and-true-p flymake-mode) (signal 'search-failed nil))
  (flymake-goto-prev-error count))

and for now I've bound them to C-j and C-k (because that's what evil-collection does)

(general-def flymake-mode-map
  :states 'normal
  "C-j" 'mes/evil-goto-next-error
  "C-k" 'mes/evil-goto-prev-error)

This makes it easier to make a change, fix the errors caused by the change and then return to where I was.

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