On 00:17 10 Sep 2003, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I guess this is an easy one.. how can I insert / delete something at
| the beggining of each line of a block in vi? Still can't figure it,
| though there must be at least ten ways.
For lines 10 to 20:
:10,20s/^/foo /
Or you can just mark both lines (go to first line, type ka, go to last
line, type kb) and then:
:'a,'bs/^/foo /
and so forth. Don't forget that vi has an entire line-mode editor (ex)
underneath it, accessible via the : key. See "man ex" and/or "man ed"
for more info on the line mode. It's very handy for stuff like this.
Ex is pretty much a complete superset of the ed editor.
And of course, once adept at using ed/ex, you're also much of the way to
being adept with the sed command...
Cheers,
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