Why are relative numbered movements not added to jumplist by default?? (programming.dev)

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Doing something like 5G, the location before jumping to the 5th line gets added to the jumplist. However, if you do 5j or 5k - they do not. You need to manually do m+backtick and then do 5j.

I'm interested is there any reasoning for this? Seems such a weird default behavior.

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[-] sxwpb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

because ‘j’ isn’t a jump motion (:h jump-motions). Even with a count before it, while it acts like a ‘jump’, it’s only a modifier to multiply ‘j’ [count] times

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