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From: jmastel@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Joachim Astel)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Simple VI question?
Message-ID: <1991May10.083406.21125@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 10 May 91 08:34:06 GMT
References: <1991May9.024022.24367@massey.ac.nz> <1991May09.140740.18@chinet.chi.il.us>
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les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>But if I were doing it I probably wouldn't bother with the second mark.  Just
>put the cursor on the ending line for the range and use . to reference it.

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

You could also omit the '.' and the third slash. Mark the beginning and enter:

:'a,s/^/>>

	-Achim
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