>
>
> On Dec 14, 8:55 pm, John Little<john.b.lit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BPJ asked:
>>
>>> How do I do to get back to (roughly) the same line in
>>> the file as I was on after executing a filter command
>>> on the whole file?
>>
>> Paul answered:
>>
>>> ctrl-i and ctrl-o will take you through the jump list.
>>
>> But you may have to first use m' to ensure the current position is in
>> the jumplist. So
>> m'
>> :%!whatever
>> ctrl-o
>>
>
> After some experimentation, I like this best:
>
> m'
> :%!whatever
> ''
>
> (why use CTRL-O for a single jump to the ' mark?)
>
> Note you could also use any of the a-z marks instead of '.
>
Thanks all!
I was under the apparently false impression that marks
were destroyed by filtering the whole buffer -- probably
because the filter I first tried mangled the contents
too much.
/bpj
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