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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:11:41PM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> I don't see a trivial way to make this a macro, but if you make your
> substition in "ex" mode, like this:
>=20
>   :s/^/#/
>=20
> you can then repeat it 10 times at some other point in the file, like
> this:
>=20
>   :.,+10&
>=20
> or repeat it for a block of text (to the next non-blank line), like
> this:
>=20
>   :.,/^$/&
>=20
> The last is easy to generalize into a macro that comments out the
> entire succeeding block of text (from first non-blank line to the
> following blank line):
>=20
>   :map <key> :/./,/^$/s/^/#/^V^V^V^M
>=20
> (You have to type Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-V Ctrl-M to get a <RETURN> into
> a macro definition.)
>=20
> Frederick

Thanks a lot, that last mapping is very useful. I applied a 0x after it to =
get
rid of the pesky extra hash on the last line.

Now kernel configging is a lot less painful ;)

Regards,
Peter
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