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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:11:10 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vi editing
Message-ID:  <20100115181110.GA52842@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <4B50AFD4.2000808@sbcglobal.net>
References:  <723540.47549.qm@web52106.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4B50AFD4.2000808@sbcglobal.net>

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:11:32PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> preface each line:
>=20
> :%s/^/new word /g

The trailing g isn't needed because you only need one substitution on
each line.  Thus:

    :%s/^/new word /

--=20
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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