history VS visual-regexp-steroids.el

I've been using history.el for a while, which uses advice around "jumpy" functions. I like your idea of a timer based history in addition. Will try it out.

> I'd like to have an analogue to jump back with my C-x stuff like I do with M-. and M-, - any emacs people have suggestions on how to do that?

If you use Xref UI for "Find References/Implementations/Type", M-, should work in those cases too.

There is a more general question: how to "jump forward" again, without re-invoking the previous navigation command with the exact arguments. IDEA, already mentioned in comments, has key bindings for that.

There are several third-party packages which attempt to solve it as well. I'm using this one:

https://github.com/tcw165/history

You can also add "jump back" to your other navigation commands, even if they don't use the Xref UI.

Or https://github.com/boyw165/history/

That is a cool tool. If I can use visual-regexp-steroids.el to manage regex matching in emacs (I need to figure out how to do this if this is even possible), but also I do not understand what I need to change in the variable org-emphasis-regexp-components. The variable is described as the following....

https://github.com/benma/visual-regexp-steroids.el/. There is always a package for what you need in emacs or you can always make your own. This package supports python regex in emacs which supports look ahead/behind and alot of other things.

Note at the bottom of emacswiki.org/[…]/RegularExpression that with python available, you can use visual-regexp-steroids to get access to sufficiently-expressive regexp.

I use visual-regexp-steroids to allow searching and replacing with alternative syntaxes (specifically, PCRE). It really makes the experience better along with visual-regexp itself.

Probably by using pcre2el. There is also visual-regexp-steroids which lets you use python engine as well (aside from pcre2el) and achieve the same thing shown here but interfacing with python.