On Fri, February 13, 2009 7:49 am, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 13.02.2009 07:48, Stroller wrote: >> On 13 Feb 2009, at 00:53, Philip Webb wrote: >>> 090212 Stroller quoted: >>>> In vim, you can just select the rectangular region with Ctrl-v, >>>> then type "I#<ESC>". This will insert # in each line at the same >>>> column. >>> >>> If you want to comment a series of lines m-n , it's quicker to do : >>> >>> :m,ns/^/#/ >> >> I saw similar comments in my Google searches, but I am flummoxed how one >> could find it so. >> >> Is it only on my keyboard that forward-slash is a "lower-case" character >> that is accessed *without* the shift key deployed? >> >> How do you know m & n? > > Column and line numbers are shown on the lower right part of the screen. > >> Surely it's easier just to highlight the lines? > > Not when you are working with the keyboard most of the time. Taking > your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse is time consuming and > becomes rather annoying.
True, but with this method, you don't use the mouse, just the keyboard: 1) Go to first line 2) Press <CTRL>+V 3) go to last line 4) Press <ESC> 5) Press <SHIFT>+I 6) Press '#' 7) Press <ESC> On my system I then need to move the cursor to actually see the change, is this normal? -- Joost
