I would like to insert a hash at the beginning of a selected block of text in VIM (ruby comment). I selected the lines in Visual Mode, but how do I perform the same operation to all lines?
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I would like to insert a hash at the beginning of a selected block of text in VIM (ruby comment). I selected the lines in Visual Mode, but how do I perform the same operation to all lines?
You have two primary options:
Select in block visual mode (ctrl-v), then use
Ito insert the same thing along the left side of the entire block. SimilarlyAappends; see blockwise operators.Select the lines in normal visual (v) or visual line (V) mode, then run the same command on all of them, for example
s/^/# /ornormal I#. Typing:while you have a visual selection automatically uses the visual selection as the line range (denoted by'<,'>).