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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Another vi feature I miss.
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Date: 10 Mar 89 21:18:22 GMT
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In article <7494@killer.Dallas.TX.US> cantrell@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Keith Cantrell) writes:
>A vi feature I miss is the way vi keep track of where the cursor is
>as you move up and down lines.

What flavor of Emacs are you using?  All the Emacs implementations
I've used significantly (the original PDP-10 EMACS, Multics Emacs,
Zmacs, GNU Emacs) do what you say.  In the case of GNU Emacs, I just
tried it in version 18.52 and it does what you want.

Remember, there are a zillion Emacs variants around.  You MUST specify
the dialect and version when asking for help.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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