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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: vi for the Mac
Message-ID: <559@uva.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 14:27:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: uva.559
References: <442@edsel.UUCP> <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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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?

QUED has Markers, which do just that.  Make a marker anywhere and it then
shows up in the menu.  Select it and zap, you're back.  You can make these
cmd-key equivalents as well.

Nisus includes this feature too, and I found it invaluable for flipping
between chapters, for instance.

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS