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Hopefully this hasn't already been requested...

When browsing program code I find it very useful to be able to jump back to the previous position in the file.

For example, I'm working out the logic and flow of some code, I come across a function/method call, I want to see it's implementation so I do a find/search for that function, review it, but decide I want to return to the line of code from where I jumped to the function and continue navigating the file from there.

Basically I'm after a breadcrumb trail of positions within the file - if this is already provided in TP then I'd love to know where, otherwise please consider this a new feature request which is hopefully very useful and should be easy to implement.

You can leave a bookmark at the current line and jump back to it later. Have a look at the bookmark commands in the Search menu. But if you leave more than one, you won't have a "breadcrumb trail" as such; TextPad only lets you visit bookmarks sequentially from top to bottom.

When using TextPad 5.4.2, I miss the feature in Visual Studio where you type "CTRL -" to move back; literally undoing the navigation commands that change lines. So UP, DOWN, PAGE UP, and PAGE DOWN cause the resulting line number to be recorded in a circular queue as well as search/find jumps, etc. But LEFT and RIGHT are not recorded. "CTRL SHIFT -" moves forward.