Re: tracking text

On Jan 26, 8:40 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 1:46 am, sinbad <sinbad.sin...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jan 26, 12:33 pm, Paul Isambert <zappathus...@free.fr> wrote:
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> > > sinbad <sinbad.sin...@gmail.com> a écrit:
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> > > Aren't marks good enough? Mark the line containing "jack", and then use
> > > the mark, or if you want the line number use line("'x"), where "x" is
> > > your mark. Vim will keep track of it better than any hack.
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> > > If marks are unknown to you, try ":help bookmark".
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> > > Best,
> > > Paul
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> > marks are limited, the number of locations i want to track will always
> > exceed 26, so i had to use getpos(), setpos().
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> You're not really working simultaneously on over 26 different
> positions in the same buffer, right? What are you actually trying to
> accomplish here? Maybe there is a better way.
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> I think signs (see :help signs) automatically adjust similarly to
> marks, and those are not limited, but they serve a slightly different
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Wow, vim never ceases to amaze me.
Signs are exactly what i need.
Ben, thanks for letting me know about signs.
Basically i am trying to track all the new text
i'm adding to a file.

cheers
sinbad

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