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Subject: Re: Simple VI question?
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From: sanjiv@hoss.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia)
Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 14:38:42 GMT
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In <1991May9.024022.24367@massey.ac.nz> news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) 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.

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

All you need to do is to put a backslash in front of >.  Thus, you should have:

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

>Thanx
>Raminder $ingh

Sanjiv
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