GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 746640
history/back does not take you to the jump location
Last modified: 2015-09-08 15:57:51 UTC
Following on from the solution in #169903, when you jump to another page, entering manually the new page number, the 'back' button will not take you to the location you 'jumped' from, but to the last manually entered page number. To elaborate: - I manually enter page 240, to go to 'Chapter 9'. - I read a couple of pages, and am now on page 245. - I see a (literal not hyperlink) reference to 'Chapter 3, page 31' - I type in page 31, and press enter, and evince takes me to Chapter 3. - I now press back, but instead of going to page 245, it goes to page 240! Not certain if this same behaviour exists if I use hyperlinks (e.g. table of contents hyperlink to p 240, then reference hyperlink to page 31, then back), but could be the case. I've marked this as an enhancement, but I would say it's a bug. When you go back, you want to go to your last location. It's a real pain in scientific papers or large texts that are not hyperlinked.
I second to that. Maybe a more simple way to reproduce this: - You manually go to e.g. Chapter 9. - You advance few pages - You click to a reference link, you take a look and you want to go back - You click "Back", but you find yourself at the beginning of Chapter 9, whereas you would like to be on the page where the reference link is. Looks like a reference click hook that would add a new entry to the stack of recent locations would do the trick.
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 743315 ***