On Oct 22, 2008, at Wednesday, October 22 8:10, SegFault 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".
>
> Did I miss something?
>

 >You set a mark by from command mode issuing:
 >
 >mx
 >
 >where x is a key of choice, let's say 'a'.
 >
 >Now you can press 'a to go back to the position you marked.
 >
 >I hope it works for you, since this is the way it should work.
 >
 >Cheers,
 >
 >//Karl Molin

Correction; it should say normal mode, not command mode. Sorry for that.


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