Setting Of and Going To Markers

A more elegant method is to set markers by using the command

set

The processing of this command consists in exaEdit memorizing the record of the current line.

With the command

return

you can go back to the marked record from everywhere in your file.

If you give the command SET another time, the previous marker is overridden and, again, the current line is marked.

With the command

set ?

you can inform yourself which record a following RETURN command would go back to.

If you give the command RETURN without having set a marker in the same workfile with the SET command, you receive the message

SET storage unused

If you have deleted the record with the SET marker in the meantime, the commands SET ? and RETURN provide the previous record. To call your attention to this, you receive in both cases the following message:

SET storage changed, return to previous record

This message will only then stop to occur when you define a new SET marker.

There is an extra SET memory for every single workfile. Thus, it is not possible to return to another workfile with RETURN.

The line marked by SET has the symbolic line number s, which you may use effectively in all commands needing a line number.