Textmarkers remember files and positions. If you set marker `a' in file `foo', start editing file `bar' and type 'a, then YOU WILL SWITCH TO FILE `foo'. You can see the contents of a textmarker using the Viper command [<a-z> where <a-z> are the textmarkers, e.g., [a to view marker `a' .

There is one difference in text deletion that you should be aware of. This difference comes from Emacs and was adopted in Viper because we find it very useful. In Vi, if you delete a line, say, and then another line, these two deletions are separated and are put back separately if you use the `p' command. In Emacs (and Viper), successive series of deletions that are not interrupted by other commands are lumped together, so the deleted text gets accumulated and can be put back as one chunk. If you want to break a sequence of deletions so that the newly deleted text could be put back separately from the previously deleted text, you should perform a non-deleting action, e.g., move the cursor one character in any direction.

You should be aware that Emacs interprets /foo/bar//bla as /bla and /foo/~/bar as ~/bar. This is designed to minimize the need for erasing path names that Emacs suggests in its prompts, if a suggested path name is not what you wanted.

The command :cd will change the default directory for the current Emacs buffer. The Ex command :e will interpret the filename argument in `csh', by default. See Customization, if you want to change this.