Re: Inserting text of arbitrary length before rectangular region

[Gerard Lally]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 21:02, Marc Simpson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'd go the traditional vi route,
>
>     :.,/Tom/s/^/Name of applicant:
>
> Or if the range wasn't so straightforwardly expressible, you could
> mark the first and last lines first (e.g. ma, mb), then
>
>     :'a,'b/^/Name of applicant:

Excellent, Marc. Works perfectly. Thank you!