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
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