Re: Vim question

[Eric P <eric.maillist@gmail.com>]

>> > If you wanted to instead replace
>>
>>>line 1
>>>line 2
>>>line 3
>>>
>>>with
>>>
>>>/*
>>>line 1
>>>line 2
>>>line 3
>>>*/
>>>
>>>I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do.
>>>
>>
>>Actually, I would like to know how to do this in VIM.
>>
>>Any takers?
>>
>>Eric
> 
> 
> I have scripts cos (comment out shell) and coc (comment out C)
> so that, for example, !}cos comments out a paragraph with '#' at the
> beginning of each line and !}cos comments out a paragraph with /*...*/.
> 
> cat ~/bin/cos:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> while (<>) {
> 	s/^/#/;
> 	print
> }
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> cat ~/bin/coc:
> echo '/*'
> cat
> echo '*/'
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
That's cool.   I wonder though if there's a way to do this in Vim.  We
work on Windows boxen at work (at gun point), and I don't have Perl
installed.

Thanks,
Eric P