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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:21:19 +0100
From: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta <megarcia@intercom.es>
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Subject: Re: vi question
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	Hi.

=== 8773836928@skytel.com escribía
(Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:47:27PM -0600):

> 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 ).
> 
	Move the cursor to the first line of the block, then type

:.,+5s/^/#/

and you have commented out the current line and the five next.
Something in that line to remove the #s.

> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!

	HTH
				Manuel Garcia


P.S.: Please please please make your lines shorter, like 72 or so.


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