Overall

• Quickmarks are Workspace global by default, but you can change that to have one Set of Quickmarks per Project, Folder or Document.
• A Quickmark remembers the current selection completely by default, but you can change that to only remember the start of the selection or the line of the selection.
• There are 10 available Quickmarks (0-9). Only one instance of each Quickmark number can be set by default, but you can have more (by accident or intention).
• As duplicate Quickmarks (with the same number) can exist by accident or intention, the plugin handles jumping to the dups by toggling through them. Setting a new, already duplicated mark is "fool proof" by default.
• The Quickmarks are persisted across sessions, enabling you to quickly jump to the locations you were at last time.
• There is a menu for manipulating and jumping to Quickmarks.
• Quickmarks are visible/jumpable to in task and bookmark view, but you are able to change that too. But see the notes in the feature docs, if you are an Eclipse 3 user!
• A Quickmark is indicated by an icon with the corresponding number in the vertical annotation bar. Again, see the notes in the feature docs, if you are an Eclipse 3 user!
• The Quickmarks description in the views/when hovering is good configurable.
• The plugin comes with detailed and illustrated online documentation including context sensitive help.
• You can even switch to another style ("M" company style, always toggling through Quickmarks, unlimited number of marks). Or you may have best of both worlds.

Please be sure to have read the "readme.html" and/or the online docs coming with the plugin.

Activating the plugin

In order to activate the plugin, you need to enable Window / Customize Perspective / Other -> Quickmarks Both Styles.

Setting quickmarks

Quickmarks are set using Ctrl+Shift+[0-9] (the keyboard shortcuts can be changed in Window / Preferences / Workbench / Keys -> Navigate.)

If a quickmark with the same number already exists, it is moved to the new location by default (unless there are duplicates already, then another duplicate is added by default). If the specific quickmark already exists in the current location, that quickmark is removed always.

Jumping to quickmarks

You jump to a quickmark by pressing Alt+[0-9]. If the quickmark is not in the active file, the corresponding editor is activated (and the file is loaded if necessary).

On our todo list

In this order:

1. Add an undo feature when moving quickmarks (in case important positions were lost). Current plan is to have the old quickmarks recreated to invisible markers on move of a quickmark for some time and have a special 'Quickmark History' view to jump to them and then possibly recreate a normal quickmark there.

Things to note

In some editors, you can't set marks at all, including by means of this plugin. This is particularly in the PDE-related editors (build.properties editor, plugin.xml editor etc). Other cases are editors opened via "Jump to Definition" (F3) and presenting you a class file, or files opened from the "Plug-ins" view. In the latter cases these editors also appear as read only. Although in all mentioned cases setting marks would be usefull too, Eclipse does not offer that functionality. So only an appropriate message is shown.

The versions 1.0.11 and 3.0.2 were implemented mainly by Georg Rehfeld. Thanks to Jesper for the initial version and all further support!

The plugin/package name has changed from 1.0.1 (formerly dk.kampstruplinnet.quickmarks) to 1.0.10 (now net.sourceforge.eclipsetools.quickmarks). So be sure to remove dk.kampstruplinnet.quickmarks_xxx plugins when installing this variant to avoid conflicts (does not apply to Eclipse 2.1, but only Eclipse 3.x).