Re: vi globally append question
From: Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Patrick
Albuquerque wrote:
> > 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/^/#/
>
> Well......
>
> That may be neat but I doubt it will work in vi.
It may very well work
> in vim or elvis or some other enhanced clone of vi
but that's not
> quitethe same thing.
>
I just mentioned it because I was impressed by the
excellent Advanced Vi Tutorial by Walter Alan Zintz
http://www.nwc.com/unixworld/tutorial/009/009.part3.html#section1
FWIW, vim manual doesn't indicate it's non standard.
It even seems to be available in ex, which predates vi.
Patrick.
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