How To Add Bookmarks Inside Vim Editor

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"1. Vim Local Bookmark
Within a single file when you want to go to a particular position or line, then you can use local marking. If the bookmark name is a lower case letter, then that is local mark.

"How to Create Bookmark Inside Vi?
Type m{macro-name}. macro-name is an alphabet to refer to the name of the bookmark.

"If you type "ma" , it will create bookmark on the current line at the current location with name "a". In the following example, typing ma has created a bookmark at the exact location where the cursor is highlighted."

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