From: Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49 > > am Subject: vi globally append question > > > > > hi all, > > > > > > i have a file like; > > > > > > # one 123 > > > > > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of each line which > > > is not started with a # . how can i do it with vi or ed, so > far, i > > > 've tried; > > > > This is neatest, I think > > > > :g!/^#/ s/^/#/ > > Well...... > > That may be neat but I doubt it will work in vi. It may very well work > in vim or elvis or some other enhanced clone of vi but that's not > quitethe same thing. >
I just mentioned it because I was impressed by the excellent Advanced Vi Tutorial by Walter Alan Zintz http://www.nwc.com/unixworld/tutorial/009/009.part3.html#section1 FWIW, vim manual doesn't indicate it's non standard. It even seems to be available in ex, which predates vi. Patrick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
