I tried to set a mark using a digit: m1
and apparently that does not work, because later I typed `1
and I think it opened the last opened file or something else, I'm not sure.
What does m1
do?
Are marks restricted to letters?
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Sign up to join this communityI tried to set a mark using a digit: m1
and apparently that does not work, because later I typed `1
and I think it opened the last opened file or something else, I'm not sure.
What does m1
do?
Are marks restricted to letters?
You can jump to numbered marks, but you can't set them directly. According to :h mark-motions
:
Numbered marks '0 to '9 are quite different. They can not be set directly. They are only present when using a viminfo file
viminfo-file
. Basically '0 is the location of the cursor when you last exited Vim, '1 the last but one time, etc. Use the "r" flag in 'viminfo' to specify files for which no Numbered mark should be stored. Seeviminfo-file-marks
.
`
or an apostrophe'
? The two are different.