Re: [9fans] in ed, how to do i do this?

[dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>]

On Friday 17 of June 2011 16:55:41 Fernan Bolando wrote:
> 2. indent a line - i usually retype the whole line.


to indent several lines, you could do
1) set dot to range, like 1,5
2) s,^, ,g

(a tab between second and third coma)

but that'd indent the empty ones too :(

you want

1) set dot to range, like 1,5
2) s,^.,        &,g

(a tab between second coma and the ampersand)
the `g' means `do it for every line, rather than just the first one'

-- 
dexen deVries

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