Hello Steve, you were right on the money! It worked fine that way and unfortunately I learned by trying it out that the mark is not saved after the computer reboots, so will probably just use an editor like Joe to read long files and just insert symbols in the text at the point where I would want to resume reading at a later date. I could use the find command to find the symbol. Many thanks for your assistance with this problem. Do you know if there is any way to get Joe to read more than a page at a time. This would greatly speed up reading long documents. Thanks, Ed, 01:59 PM 1/26/2004 -0700, you wrote: >I think what you would do is after hitting m to set a mark, hit >another letter of your choice. Say for this example, use letter 'a' >without the ''. Then when you go to that bookmark later, type the ' >key followed by the letter a. That's how I see it; I could be wrong >but... Give it a go. > >On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:38:46PM -0500, Ed Thurston wrote: >> Hello Listers, >> >> I have spent some time in learning some of the commands for the Less >> Utility Program. However, I am stumped as how to use the command to mark >> the point in the body of text being read in order to return to it later. >> >> For instance the help file says to mark the place to return to with >> m<letter>. >> >> Does this mean to use the letter m to mark the place? Whenever I do so, it >> does not work. When I go to the top of the file in question and press >> the apostrophe key which is supposed to go to the marker, nothing >> happens. It just says marked text not found. >> >> >> Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? >> >> Also will the marker remain in place so that I can return to it at another >> time? Or will it be lost when I turn off the computer? >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Ed, >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > >-- >HolmesGrown Solutions >The best solutions for the best price! >http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
