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From: strausd@ladder.cs.orst.edu (Douglas E. Strauss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: vi for the Mac
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Date: 25 Oct 88 16:23:14 GMT
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In article <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>While in general I certainly prefer Mac style editing to vi, there is one vi
>feature I find extremely useful which has yet to show up in any Mac editor I
>have seen, and that is the ability to mark a location and quickly return to
>it.  It's a simple two keystroke command in vi ('m' followed by a letter to
>name the mark), and returning is another 2 stroke command.  It's very useful
>in navigating large programs, or any large documents for that matter.  
>Anyone have any idea why it hasn't been implemented in any major editors, or
>know of any that do have it?

What about trying search/find in Word of hidden text, haven't tried it but seemslike could work provided you rember the text and is unambigous.