[ale] Appending in VIM

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Mike Fletcher)]

On Feb 5, 2013, at 16:20, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> Here is a quickie.
> 
> A lot of times I add mysql describe <table name> output to a perl program as comments.  I execute mysql ... >> name.pl and then I move the lines to where I want and add '# ' to the beginning of each line.  The first line I'll do I then # then space, and then esc.  The other lines I hit the period to execute the last edit.
> 
> Is there a way I can tell vim to append '#_' to N lines?

Tmtowtdi, of course.  Why not just add it on the way in before editing?

mysql ... | perl -pE 's/^/# /' >> name.pl