Provided are methods and computing devices wherein in one embodiment, a positional input is utilized to identify variables associated with operations configured to designate groups or ranges of user chosen locations within a document, and operations having access to the designated locations to edit the document. For example, two variables, corresponding to two ends of a line, drawn at various positions on a touch screen within which a text document is displayed, may be utilized to designate groups of two locations in the document within which to move a character: a first representing locations “from” and a second representing locations “to” in which, to move a character. Other embodiments are disclosed, such as grouping user entered symbols, commands and text at various positions on a touch screen within which a document is displayed, into consolidated editing commands and the locations in the document at which to apply them.