On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:59:31PM -0400, Mike Blonder wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I cannot find a good example in the documentation that would help me use
> VIM to accomplish what I need to do:
> 
> I need to add 6 lines to each of thousands of files.  The location for
> the lines to be added is the same and definable in a command.  Anybody
> have any ideas as to a straightforward way to get this done?  I've tried
> copying the lines to a register and then inserting the register text
> into an argdo command,

You were on the right track.  If you have all the text in a register,
then you can just use the :put command to do what you want.  For
example, if the text was in register a and you wanted to put it after
line 24 in every file:

  :argdo 24put a

James
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