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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: How do I do this in VI?
Message-ID: <IPRAOY6@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 14:13:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.223037.23316@massey.ac.nz>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1991Apr15.223037.23316@massey.ac.nz> R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh) writes:
> 1) Copy and paste every line in a file, for eg.

:g/^/copy.

> 2) Insert a blank line after every line. For eg

You have to be in EX mode for this, so hit Q:

g/^/a\
\
.
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