XCode 4 : No editing insertion point history??? What the...

Hello…
After countless hours of searching, I wasn't able to find a way to move forward and backward in my editing places in my code. It is as if the Xcode4 does not hold any insertion point history.
The current Forward/Backward scheme of XCode4 ( by using "Control" + "Command" + "Arrow", or three finger touchpad swipe, or the two little arrows on the left top corner of the code) is to move between file history.
It completely destroys my productivity, to the point I am seriously considering to switch back to Xcode3. If anyone knows how to do editing point history navigation in Xcode4 the way we did it in Xcode 3 I would be more than happy to listen to his suggestions.
Message was edited by: Iron_0

Hi xnav, thanks for the response..
I tried opening two tabs with the same file. In order this solution to work, every time you need to do an editing to click on the tab of the file on the background, activate it, and do the change there. On the next change you need to click the tab of the previous file again, and do it there. It is not very convenient as on every change you will need to click on the other tab. And also in case of scrolling you need to scroll the other tab too so that they point at the same place…
It's so confusing… In Xcode3 I had implement an app that consisted of 45 classes and the biggest one was 15000 lines of code and the navigation in the lines of the same class was like a breeze using the back button. In my current new app I hardly have 2000 lines of code in my main class and I straggle to do any progress at all. Splitting the code into different classes may sound as the way to go, but there are cases that this is not effective and things need to be held at the same class..
Anyway, thanks so much everyone for the responses and suggestions.. I really appreciate the time you spent for them… I hope in the end something useful to come out of this..
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