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Hello,

I have been editing some 
Perl scripts in vi recently,
and I find it very annoying
that Perl cannot comment
blocks of code, only lines.

I have been reading the docs in vi, but I can't quite figure out how to do a substitute command that will, say, prepend a # to the next n lines, and later remove the # ( well, the second one I could always use :s and replace the first # with nothing for the next n lines. But the first one is still a mystery to me ).

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

P.S. Please cc: me, as I am not subscribed to the list with this account. Thanks again.


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