Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!mtunx!whuts!homxb!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!clive From: clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Hey! What about us, Mac+ users! Message-ID: <8046@drutx.ATT.COM> Date: 4 Jun 88 06:22:14 GMT References: <11505@apple.Apple.Com> Organization: resident visitor Lines: 22 From article <11505@apple.Apple.Com>, by dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen): > *** I am dumb: will somebody tell me how to quote stuff with vi ? *** Dear Dan. You are not dumb at all. Most of us have news reply software that does the indent quotes automatically. In vi, you could try: go to the top of the quotable. key in ma (Mark a) go to the bottom of the quotable. key in mb (Mark b) then, with a return after it: key in :'a,'b s/^/> / This will do it. I tried it. In a crooked sort of way (what consistency) it substitutes '> ' for line beginnings (regular expression is prefix ^), without losing the line beginnings. Between and including the marks. In ex mode (the colon). Well, you asked. Cheers, and welcome to *nix, Clive