[ale] Appending in VIM

[Chris Fowler]

On 02/05/2013 06:54 PM, Mike Fletcher wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2013, at 16:20, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is a quickie.
>>
>> A lot of times I add mysql describe <table name> output to a perl program as comments.  I execute mysql ... >> name.pl and then I move the lines to where I want and add '# ' to the beginning of each line.  The first line I'll do I then # then space, and then esc.  The other lines I hit the period to execute the last edit.
>>
>> Is there a way I can tell vim to append '#_' to N lines?
>
> Tmtowtdi, of course.  Why not just add it on the way in before editing?
>
> mysql ... | perl -pE 's/^/# /' >> name.pl


Ha Ha.  There is more than one way to do something like that.