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From: bharat@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Simple VI question?
Message-ID: <1991May9.130749.10301@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: 9 May 91 13:07:49 GMT
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In article <1991May9.024022.24367@massey.ac.nz> R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh) writes:
>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.

This actually replaces only the first character on each line with 'la'
To replace both:

	:g/^../s//la/g

or more simply:

	:%s/^../la/g

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

Mark the two lines with 'ma' and 'mz' and then type:

	:'a,'z s/^/>>/

Cheers!


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