Hey, Thank you very much!!!
Now those are clear answers ;-) Best regards Peter On Oct 22, 9:21 pm, Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-10-22, SegFault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > I use Vim on a daily basis but am confused by the fact that "every" > > tutorial and book (including O'Reilly's "Learning the vi and Vim > > Editors, 2008") > > states, that Vim uses 'm' as the marker command followed by the marker > > 'letter', > > e.g. 'mx', where x is the marker...This is not true, is it? I have to > > use 'ma x'...at > > least with my "Windows gvim 7.2". > > In 'normal' mode (see ":help vim-modes"), you set marker 'a' at the > current cursor position by typing > > ma > > In 'command-line' or 'Ex' mode, on the other hand, the command to > set marker 'a' at column 0 of the current line is > > :ma a > > or > > :mark a > > If you're already in 'Ex' mode, all you have to type is > > ma a > > followed by <Enter>. > > So which command you use depends on which mode you're in. Since vim > defaults to 'normal' mode when it starts, and since most users stay > in that mode most of the time, when they're not actually typing > text, tutorials and books will assume that mode and not mention it > explicitly every time they describe a command. > > HTH, > Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
