[Chapter 4] 4.4 Marking Your Place
Author: Linda Lamb
Date: 1998-08-03T20:51:12Z

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| Chapter 4 Beyond the Basics |

## 4.4 Marking Your Place

During a vi session, you can mark your place in the file with an invisible "bookmark," perform edits elsewhere, then return to your marked place. In command mode:

`m` x

  Marks current position with x (x can be any letter).

`'`x

  (apostrophe) Moves cursor to first character of line marked by x.

```x

  (backquote) Moves cursor to character marked by x.

````

  (backquotes) Returns to exact position of previous mark or context after a move.

`''`

  (apostrophes) Returns to the beginning of the line of the previous mark or context. Place markers are set only during the current vi session; they are not stored in the file.

4.3 Making Use of Buffers |  | 4.5 Other Advanced Edits