using Less commands

[Ed Thurston]

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, 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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