From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T23:03:18+09:00
Subject: Re: About ruvi

Alexander Kellett wrote:
>>m and '
> 
> 
> missing at the moment. i could
> never find a good use for marks.
> anyone got a nice non-interactive 
> example for a usage? (as in a nice
> command rather than just use as a 
> bookmark i don't find single letters 
> all that useful :)

Well, I use s-V for this now, but before I learned about the V commands, 
I used marks for defining ranges:

   1) mx
   2) move to another location in the file
   3) y'x (or >'x or <'x or gU'x or...)

Incidentally (and if memory serves) this is the way vi does it (since vi 
doesn't have the V commands). Thus, a lot of people use the mark 
commands if they are coming from vi to vim (as was my case).

- Jamis

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