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See the following example:

" open a file with 20+ lines.
1gg    " jump to line 1
3gg    " jump to line 3
5gg    " jump to line 5
7gg    " jump to line 7
ctrl+O " back to line 5
ctrl+O " back to line 3
20gg   " jump to line 20
ctrl+O " back to line 3
ctrl+O " back to line 7!!!! But what I expected is back to line 1

I read :h jumplist and know why I get this result. But this bevior is really annoying for me (I use vim to read c++ code and jump through function call stack frequently), what I want is:

After ctrl+O and make a new jump, vim can erases jump tags that are later than current position in the jumplist.

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    Not really an answer to your question, but are you already aware of the CTRL-T command? It goes back in the tag stack, which works differently from the jumplist and (I think) closer to what you want.
    – Rich
    Dec 19, 2018 at 16:30
  • @Rich I didn't known ctrl-t before and just tried it, I would say ctrl-t does help a lot, the behavior for tag stack is what I want for jumplist. However, ctrl-t is limited for tag stack, sometimes I stiil have the need for ctrl+O, but each ctrl+] adds an element in jumplist, which makes it annoying to use ctrl+O to go back.
    – Tiny
    Dec 20, 2018 at 17:10
  • I have the same problem. It's really annoying, Please someone can give any help. eg. Clean jump lists after ctrl+o.
    – wllenyj
    Mar 20, 2019 at 12:27
  • This is not possible I think, i.e. there is no settings to achieve that. And this would not be desirable for most people cause we use ctrl+i for going forward in jumplist. And if you just clear the later jumps from the current position, you can't use ctrl+i. So, it will never be the official behavior. But you can maybe use :h getjumplist() to create your own plugin with your wanted behavior.
    – 3N4N
    Mar 20, 2019 at 14:12

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Neovim has now a jumplist-stack setting that makes the jumplist behave like the tag stack:

set jumpoptions+=stack

Unfortunately I do not think vim has a similar option yet.

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I had exactly the same problem as yours, which annoyed me years. Now I add a trimjumplist function to vim so I can use below code and it works for me but you will have to compile vim. Hope this will help.

function! TrimJumpListAndCscopeFind(action, word)
    if has('jumplist')
        if exists('*trimjumplist')
            let jl = getjumplist()
            call trimjumplist(len(jl[0]) - str2nr(jl[1]))
        endif
    endif
    call CscopeFind(a:action, a:word)
endfunction

nnoremap  <leader>fg :call TrimJumpListAndCscopeFind('g', expand('<cword>'))<CR>
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    Hi sevenever! On Stackexchange sites, it is good practice to avoid answers of the kind "I have this problem too", and "link only" answers. That's the reason I proposed an edit with the content of the function you have created that is on github. Feel free to add more detailed information.
    – Stephane Rolland
    Mar 6, 2020 at 16:22

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