Or vim, which also supports all kinds of good things like bookmarks. Steve Holmes writes: > From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> > > It sounds like you might benefit from using emacs. Yes, it is a > powerful and that often means complex, editor but you can bookmark > your positions in multiple places and save them from one session to > the next. Its a bit much to try and explain here but if you get into > the info pages for emacs and look at the section on registers, you > will find it. It works on read-only situations like info pages as > well as files being edited. > > I know nothing about joe editor. > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:59:45PM -0500, Ed Thurston wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. > > -- > 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 -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org
