On 22/10/08 21:29, Karl Molin wrote: > 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.
"Command mode" is correct, it's the old (Vi, I think) name for Normal mode, The other is command-line mode, which I suppose could also be called ex-command mode or even colon mode. Best regards, Tony. -- "Gee, Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
