Marks

Now marks are both incredible and also confusing at the same. Effectively vim gives you the ability to mark files both globally and locally. This means with just a swift couple taps of the finger you could be in a file marked. I find marks definitely the end game of file navigation, but they are hard to do well.

So lets open up 3 files in vim-nav-playground and mark each one.

First lets open one file, src/sockets.c. Use your favorite way to open up this file.

:e src/sockets.c

Then mark it by typing m then an uppercase character of your choice.

Repeat with src/twitch.c and src/another.c with different uppercase characters. Remember the 3 characters you chose.

To navigate to the files you marked simply press '<MarkLetter>. So for me, I chose G for sockets.c, and to navigate there I simply press 'G.

Some mark theory

• What marks did you choose?
• Why?
• Do you see some strategies?
• Strategies I have heard of
• My strategies