Using Bookmarks

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You can set named or unnamed bookmarks to mark frequently accessed lines in your source file. Once a bookmark is set, you can use menu or keyboard commands to move to it. You can remove a bookmark when you no longer need it.

What do you want to do?

Set a named bookmark

Set an unnamed bookmark

Remove a named bookmark

Remove multiple named bookmarks

Remove an unnamed bookmark

Jump to a named bookmark

Move to the next bookmark

Move to the previous bookmark

To set a named bookmark

  1. Move the insertion point to the line and column where you want to set a named bookmark.

  2. From the Edit menu, choose Bookmarks.

  3. In the Name box, type a name for the bookmark.

  4. Click Add to add the named bookmark to the list of bookmarks and to set the bookmark at the insertion point.

  5. Click Close.

To set an unnamed bookmark

  1. Move the insertion point to the line where you want to set a bookmark.

  2. Press the BookmarkToggle key combination.

    The line is selected, or marked in the margin if you have set the selection margin.

To remove a named bookmark

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Bookmarks.

  2. Select the name of the bookmark to remove.

  3. Click Delete.

  4. Click Close.

To remove multiple named bookmarks

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Bookmarks.

  2. Select the names of the bookmarks to remove.

  3. Click Delete.

  4. Click Close.

To remove an unnamed bookmark

  1. Move the insertion point to anywhere on the line containing the unnamed bookmark.

  2. Press the BookmarkToggle key combination.

To jump to a named bookmark

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Bookmarks.

  2. Select the name of the bookmark to jump to.

  3. Click Go To.

Note   If the file containing the bookmark is not currently open, the Text editor opens the file.

To move to the next bookmark

To move to the previous bookmark