From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 02:30:59 -0500 From: David Hogan dhog@plan9.cs.su.oz.au Subject: no need for cd Topicbox-Message-UUID: 07e29f3c-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950309073059.5hwt__Ftn-LgErgj8TsLbuenMpqkZ_QPW7X3kwQeo8Q@z> >a comment on your message: there is no word 'prepend'; use 'prefix'. But it's in the Jargon File! :-) :-) :-) :prepend: /pree`pend'/ [by analogy with `append'] vt. To prefix. As with `append' (but not `prefix' or `suffix' as a verb), the direct object is always the thing being added and not the original word (or character string, or whatever). "If you prepend a semicolon to the line, the translation routine will pass it through unaltered."