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@@ -86,6 +86,17 @@ command). Load (edit) an existing file from disk, discarding any change to the current screen. .TP 5m +.BI M a +Mark (label) the current cursor position as 'a'. The label 'a' must be +one of the 26 ASCII alphabetic characters. The cursor can be moved to a +previously marked position using the global positioning command +.B g +(see below). Position marks are case-insensitive, meaning that both +.I 'c' +and +.I 'C' +indicate the same mark. +.TP 5m .BI N Start a new empty screen. If the current screen has been modified since the last @@ -178,11 +189,13 @@ units at a time (defaults to 5, change LONG_STEP in config.h as you wish). .TP 5m .BI g -Initiate a global positioning command (go). These are two-letter -commands starting with a +Initiate a global positioning command (go). These are two- or +three-letter commands starting with a .BI g -and followed by a direction command or by a character that indicates a -global position, namely: +and followed by a direction command, or by a character that indicates a +global position, or by a valid position mark previously defined with +.B M +and preceded by a single quote. In particular: .RS .TP 5m .BI h @@ -205,9 +218,24 @@ move the cursor to the bottom-right corner of the screen .TP 5m .BI m move the cursor to the middle of the screen. +.TP 5m +.BI 'a +(single-quote followed by a character) move the cursor to the position +previously marked (labelled) with character +.BI 'a' +by the command +.B M +(mark). The character 'a' must be one of the 26 ASCII alphabetic +characters. Notice that position marks are case-insensitive, so the two +commands: +.B g'b +and +.B g'B +move the cursor to the position mark associated to the letter 'b', if it +exists. .PP -For instance, if you want to move the cursor to the first row of the -current column, you would use the two-letter command +If you want to move the cursor to the first row of the current +column, you could use the two-letter command .B gk (which can be read as "go-up"). Similarly, the command .B gh @@ -227,13 +255,13 @@ is equivalent to ). .PP Global positioning commands are available in -.B box, arrow, visual, +.B box, arrow, visual, parallelogram, and .B erase mode. Notice that -.B gg, gG, -and -.B gm, +.B gg, gG, gm +and moves to position marks like +.B g'b, are not available in .B arrow mode. |