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1. Using a copy-paste manager to get more than 1 buffer (like Keyboard Maestro, but there are free ones)

2. In a lot of editors (not vi), if you need to get back to the point of your last edit (because you scrolled away) use the keyboard shortcuts for UNDO, REDO. So in a lot of editors, CTRL-Z, SHIFT-CTRL-Z -- this jumps you right back to where you last changed something.

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if by vi you mean vim, this works perfectly (and indeed i use it a lot; it's more reliable than hitting '').

if by vi you mean justplain vi, then why are you not using vim in the first place?!

You can use g; in vim to go back to the last edited place. It's using the changelist to navigate; see :changes for a list.

nice, thanks! it amazes me how much there is to learn about vim, and how useful some of the little random features are.

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