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.)