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 quite
the same thing.
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