## 17.29. Finding Your Place with Undo

Often, you're editing one part of a file and need to go to another point to look at something. How do you get back?

You can mark your place with the `m` command. In command mode, type `m` followed by any letter. (We'll use `x` in the example.) Here are the commands to do the job:

`m` `x`
  Marks current position with x (x can be any letter).
`'``x`
  Moves cursor to first character of line marked by x.
````x`
  Moves cursor to character marked by x.
````
  Returns to exact position of previous mark or context after a move.
`''`
  Returns to the beginning of the line of the previous mark or context.

I often find it just as easy to type `u` to undo my last edit. That pops me right back to the place where I was editing. Then I type `u` again to restore the edit. Watch out for the new multilevel undo feature in vi clones: typing `u` twice will undo two edits! (I still use `m` if I want to mark more than one place.)

-- TOR

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