Using location marks

Location marks function like bookmarks.  You place them in your document and use them to easily return to marked locations.

Creating and naming a mark

To create and name a mark in your document, do the following:

  1. Place the cursor at the position to be marked.
  2. Select Edit from the main menu bar.
  3. Select Mark.
  4. Select Name a mark.
  5. Enter the name of the new mark in the entry field of the Name mark input area.
  6. Press Enter to save the mark.

Finding a named mark

To move the cursor to a named mark, do the following:

  1. Select Edit from the main menu bar.
  2. Select Find other.
  3. Select Find mark.
  4. The Find mark input area appears.  Select the name of the mark you want to move to.  You can use the Up and Down arrow keys to scroll through existing marks.
  5. Press Enter to move to the location of the chosen mark.

Using a quick mark

To mark one cursor position quickly, you can use the quick mark feature by pressing Ctrl+Q or by doing the following:

  1. Move the cursor to the position where you want to set a mark.
  2. Select Edit from the main menu bar.
  3. Select Mark.
  4. Select Set quick mark.  A quick mark is created at the chosen position in your document.

To find the quick mark, press Alt+Q or do the following:

  1. Select Edit from the main menu bar.
  2. Select Find other.
  3. Select Find quick mark.  The cursor moves to the position marked by the quick mark.

You can have only one quick mark per document view.  Setting a new quick mark will cause a previous quick mark to be lost.

You can also find a quick mark using the procedure described in Finding a Named Mark above.  The quick mark will appear in the list of named marks as @QUICK.

Note:  The availability of the menu items indicated above depends on the application implementing the editor.  The keyboard operations indicated are effective only in certain editor profiles.

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