Marking Your Place (Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition) 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: mx Marks the current position with x (x can be any letter). 'x (apostrophe) Moves the cursor to the first character of the line marked by x. `x (backquote) Moves the cursor to the character marked by x. `` (backquotes) Returns to the exact position of the previous mark or context after a move. '' (apostrophes) Returns to the beginning of the line of the previous mark or context. NOTE: Place markers are set only during the current vi session; they are not stored in the file. 4.3. Making Use of Buffers4.5. Other Advanced Edits Copyright © 2003 O'Reilly & Associates. All rights reserved.