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From: larry@macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi Turing machine question
Message-ID: <4859@macom1.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 89 11:26:47 GMT
References: <1570@agora.UUCP>
Organization: CENTEL Federal Systems, Reston, VA. 22091-1506
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From article <1570@agora.UUCP>, by rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates):
> 
> Another question -
> what's the easiest way to globally append/insert text on the
> end/beginning  of lines?
> I don't know how to do it in vi at all - and in ex it's clumsy.
> 
> Rick Coates

No problem Rick,

The up carrot '^' means the beginning of a line, so to globally
insert text at the beginning of a line try...

:%s/^/this is to be inserted/g

The dollar symbol means the end of a line, so use the
following...

:%s/$/this is to appended/g

Hope this helps.

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