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    • David FernandesD
      David Fernandes
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      Is there a way to select some portion of text between twomarkers?
      For instance: I search a text in a long file and set a marquer in the line, then, search another text and set the second marker… I would like to select and isolate all lines between them.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @David Fernandes
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        @David-Fernandes ,

        It depends on what you mean by “markers”. If you mean a bookmarked line (clicking in the bookmark margin, or Ctrl+F2 to toggle bookmarks), then one way, if you’ve got two bookmarked lines:
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        • F2 (Search > Bookmark > Next Bookmark) to go to one of the two bookmarks
        • Ctrl+Shift+B (Edit > Begin/End Select) to start the selection
        • F2 (Search > Bookmark > Next Bookmark) to go to other bookmark
        • Ctrl+Shift+B (Edit > Begin/End Select) to end the selection
        • → it will be selected from the start of the upper line to the start of the lower line (so it will not include the full lower line)

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        If you just have two locations, and can get to them in some other way, you can use the same Begin/End Select.

        For example, if I have used the Search > Mark dialog to mark the 9 instances of morbi in my Lorem ipsum text, I could then use F3 (Search > Find Next) to get to the desired morbi mark, then Ctrl+Shift+B to start the selection, then F3 one or more times to get to another morbi, then Ctrl+Shift+B to select that region:

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        Either of these give some sort of “marker” and then select the text in between. To “isolate”, I assume you could copy/paste the selection to some other document or to some other section of your current document.

        If this isn’t sufficient, you will have to explain more about what you want.

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