Re: copy whole lines and paste in the first columns of all lines.

Hello, Christian.

at least, you are the guru for me.

I didn't know for '&'.

thanks a lot.

On Jan 21, 3:01 am, "Christian Brabandt" <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote:
> On Thu, January 21, 2010 5:44 am, HanGyo Jung wrote:
> > Hi! vim guru~
>
> Oh please, don't call us guru. At least I myself would not consider
> myself it (there are many different things I don't know about vim)
>
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> > I want to do like below.
> > Do you have any idea to do using simple command?
>
> > before -----------------------
> > i.sql
> > init.sql
> > login.sql
> > Documents
> > my_html.htm
>
> > after -----------------------
> > i.sql i.sql
> > init.sql init.sql
> > login.sql login.sql
> > Documents Documents
> > my_html.htm my_html.htm
>
> this is actually quite easy:
> :%s/.*/& &/
>
> which translates to:
> :%      for each line
> s/      substitute
> .*/     any non empty line by
> & &/    replacing it by itsself and appending itsself
>         separated by space
>
> regards,
> Christian