Adding to the front of a line

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:46:29 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote:

> 2009/1/21 Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 10:36 -0500, Brian McKee wrote:
>>>> I couldn't resist adding my first thought.  Type as shown - case
>>>> matters! - white space only there for readability...
>>>>
>>>>   vi sites.txt <return> Control-v G I 127.0.0.1 <space> <Esc> :wq
>>>>   <return>
>>
>>> Or
>>>
>>> vi sites.txt<return>:g/^/s//127.0.0.1 /<return>ZZ
>>
>> Well, I was trying to demo the program as well as provide a solution
>> :-)  Yours is just confusing :-)
>>
>> If we're playing Perl Golf with vim...
>>
>> Try this one Ray - just copy and paste and you're done.
>>
>> vi -c ':g/^/s//127.0.0.1 /' -c ':wq' sites.txt
> 
>    You can change
> 
> :g/^/s//127.0.0.1 /
> 
>   in
> 
> :%s/^/127.0.0.1 /
> 
>   (two keys less).
> 
>          Loïc

And can't you change :wq in :x
(even one key less)

Aart