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Subject: Simple VI question?
Message-ID: <1991May9.024022.24367@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 9 May 91 02:40:22 GMT
Reply-To: R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh)
Organization: Massey University Computer Centre
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How does one do this in VI.

Mark 2 lines, and then from ":'a, 'z" append a >> at the beginning of every
line. For example for  whole file, a command of ":g/^./s//la/g" would
substitute the first 2 characters of every line with la.

What I want to do is insert >> before every line in the region marked with
"ma" and "mz".

Thanx
Raminder $ingh