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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:13:44 +0300
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vi editing
Message-ID:  <33917351@bb.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <723540.47549.qm@web52106.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (gahn's message of "Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:37:49 -0800 (PST)")
References:  <723540.47549.qm@web52106.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:37:49 -0800 (PST) gahn wrote:

> I am trying to add a word on every line (right in front of every line) via vi. Right now I have:

> xxxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxxx

Type this:

:%s/^/"new word" /

> after that, I want to have:

> "new word" xxxxxxxxx
> "new word" xxxxxxxxx
> "new word" xxxxxxxxx

> How could I do that with vi?

-- 
WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



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