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Alright so I have a large text file with a certian phrase in the middle of the line that indicates that the entire line should be commented out (it is actually a fortran source file). I was trying to work out how to make substitution do this, but I am not sure because I would like to leave the rest of the line intact, any clues?
Alright well I came up with a sort of replacement for a direct substitution. VIM has a record command mode. So I started recording, did a find, did an insert, hit esc, then stopped recording. Then I just hit @q, @@, @@... until the end of the file.
I knew there had to be a variable for the matching string (&) thanks man. The comment out in fortran 77 (which I have the dubious honor of using) is btw.
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