From: Sean <hesselroad@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49 am Subject: vi globally append question > hi all, > > i have a file like; > > # > one > 123 > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > each line which is not started with a # . how can i do > it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried; This is neatest, I think :g!/^#/ s/^/#/ Patrick.