[wellylug] vi(m) question.

[Sam Cannell]

Do you want it added before or after the space?

If the file is:

1   this is the first line
2   this is the second line
3   another line
4   this is the last line

(line numbers added by vim, not me)

If you want it added before the space, then:

:%s/^/newtext/

And you have:

1 newtext  this is the first line
2 newtext  this is the second line
3 newtext  another line
4 newtext  this is the last line

If you want it added after:

:%s/^\( *\)/\1newtext/

Produces:

1   newtextthis is the first line
2   newtextthis is the second line
3   newtextanother line
4   newtextthis is the last line

HTH,

Sam

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Subject: [wellylug] vi(m) question.


I want to add something to the start of every line. Every line starts
with white space eg
[snip]