Often, you're editing one part of a file, and need to go to another point
to look at something. How do you get back?
You can mark your place with the
m
command. In command mode,
type
m
followed by any letter. (We'll use
x
in the
example.)
Here are the commands to do the job:
-
m
x
-
Marks current position with
x
(
x
can be any letter).
-
'
x
-
Moves cursor to first character of line marked by
x
.
-
`
x
-
Moves cursor to character marked by
x
.
-
``
-
Returns to exact position of
previous mark or context after a
move.
-
''
-
Returns to the beginning of the line of
the previous mark or context.
But I often find it just as easy to simply type
u
to
undo my last edit. That pops me right back to the place where I was
editing.
Then I type
u
again to restore the edit.
(I still use
m
if I want to mark more than one place.)