mirror of
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks.git
synced 2024-11-04 08:17:17 -05:00
91 lines
4.1 KiB
Plaintext
91 lines
4.1 KiB
Plaintext
Marks (the lite edition)
|
|
------------------------
|
|
|
|
So, were you ever reading this huge 300-pages specification heavily
|
|
cross-referencing itself, jumping around and getting a headache when looking
|
|
for the place where you stopped reading the last time?
|
|
|
|
Were you doing something similar in C code, but praising *vi* for document
|
|
marks?
|
|
|
|
ELinks can do them, too! For vim non-users:
|
|
|
|
|
|
What it is?
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
When you place a "document mark" (just "mark" from now on), you place an
|
|
_invisible_ anchor at the current position in the document. You can place
|
|
several such marks --- each mark is identified by a single character (any
|
|
reasonable character will do). Then, you can just happily browse around
|
|
aimlessly (but see below) and when in the same document again, you can
|
|
return to any of the marks in the file again. That will restore your
|
|
position in the file at the time of placing the mark.
|
|
|
|
You can place a mark by the "m" key followed by the mark character. You can
|
|
go to a mark by the "'" (apostrophe) key followed by the mark character.
|
|
E.g., you can place a mark named "a" in the file by pressing "ma", then
|
|
return to it anytime later by typing "'a". You can of course change those
|
|
shortcuts at any time to anything you wish in the keybindings manager.
|
|
|
|
Short summary: you can place a mark (e.g. 'z') in a document by pressing
|
|
"mz" and then go back to it anytime later by pressing "'z".
|
|
|
|
|
|
Restrictions
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
Currently, only A-Za-z characters are valid marks.
|
|
|
|
Only one mark named "a" (or anything else) may exist at a time, so if one
|
|
puts a mark "a" in a first document and set another mark "a" in a second
|
|
document, ELinks will simply replace the former one.
|
|
|
|
ALL the document marks are always local to the document. I.e. the vim text
|
|
editor has an extension that makes the capital-letter marks to be global to
|
|
the whole program and going to such a mark will make it to open the right
|
|
document. This is not implemented in ELinks _yet_.
|
|
|
|
Contrary to vim, ELinks doesn't support numbered marks (jumping to the last
|
|
n documents in history) nor the special "'" mark (jumping to the last mark).
|
|
Yet.
|
|
|
|
There is no way to get a listing of all marks set in a document. Yet.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marks lifespan
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
I already hinted something about another restriction regarding aimless
|
|
browsing. The lifespan of document marks depends on rather ill-defined and
|
|
(for an average mortal) mostly non-deterministic technical conditions.
|
|
|
|
Generally, marks _always_ survive when not moving away from the document or
|
|
when moving only in the session history (and unhistory). That means, if you
|
|
go back and the "unback" to the document, you will find your marks safely in
|
|
place. If you follow a link from the document (or typed an address to the
|
|
Goto URL dialog) and then go back (by pressing the right arrow or through
|
|
the File menu), your marks are safe too. These are in fact by far the most
|
|
common usage cases for the marks, so most of the time it will just work as
|
|
you expect. That's a good news.
|
|
|
|
The bad news is that in all other cases, nothing is guaranteed. It might
|
|
work if you get back to the document by any other means (by following some
|
|
link or typing its address to the Goto URL dialog), or it might not. It
|
|
might be possible to achieve two instances of the document inside a single
|
|
ELinks, each with its own set of marks. However, again, generally it will
|
|
work as expected - this paragraph serves only as a disclaimer in cases it
|
|
doesn't. Don't rely on it.
|
|
|
|
Marks never survive over ELinks restarts. If you quit your ELinks completely
|
|
and run it again, the marks you placed will be no more. No exceptions. Well.
|
|
In some cases, it *might* appear that they survived, but that just means you
|
|
did not quit your ELinks _completely_ --- if you run multiple ELinks
|
|
instances under a single user on a single system, they "join" together and
|
|
you must quit (or kill) them all to get rid of the damn thing. But that's a
|
|
different story.
|
|
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
|
|
$Id: marks.txt,v 1.13 2005/08/23 13:19:58 zas Exp $
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
|