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The "Go to Source" feature should create a history stack remembering the file, location therein, etc, in which "Go to Source" was executed. The user should then be able to pop to the last location in the stack via a menu item and key equivalent thereof. The stack should have a configurable depth (e.g. remember the last 40 locations as a default). This would make the "Go to Source" feature *much* more useful for static investigations of call chains, inheritance hierarchies, etc, etc. It would also be a very welcome and familiar feature to any users acquainted with vi and emacs tag stacks. Note that the "Show Javadoc" already has this behavior through the browser's history stack. I would potentially be interested in assisting on such an effort, though I know *nothing* of the internals of NetBeans. All the same, it would seem that this *should* be simple.
It turns out that the capability I was requesting was already there -- probably for some time. Unfortunately, it was not readily apparent in any menus, etc. It was listed in the Key Bindings, but with terseness such that I would not have known what I was looking at unless/until I already knew what to look for. By reading the source code, I found JumpList -- which behaves quite like I'd described (except with a history limit of 50 :-) In case someone else finds this later who is also having trouble finding this feature, I should mention that the default key combinations are Alt-K (back) and Alt-L (forward). Perhaps someone should open a doc bug on this topic, but I'm sated now that I've found this feature already in place.