[ale] Appending in VIM

[Alex Carver]

On 2/5/2013 15:09, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 04:49 PM, JD wrote:
>> If you know the line number range, doesn't this work?
>>
>> 7,53s/$/#_/g
>
> That is one way and it works,  but need to use ^ for beginning instead
> of the end of line.
>

There's also visual-block mode.  Move to the first column of the first 
line you want to change, Ctrl-V then move the cursor down to the last 
line (you can use any cursor movement such as [n]j to move n lines down 
or use / to search for a keyword but then that will highlight extra 
columns so use 'h' to shrink back to one column).  Now use captial i (I) 
to do a visual-block insert, type in the # once, press <ESC>, and move 
away from the line.

Or you can do it during the mysql command and avoid hand editing 
completely.  Pipe through sed on its way to the file:

mysql .... | sed 's/^/#/g' >> perlfile.pl