[ubuntu-uk] Advanced vi/vim command - commenting out a large section

[DarkOtter]

> > But, what I'd love, is a way I can type say 11 <command> and get it to
> > turn 11 lines into a comment.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a nice way to do that in vim?

It's a little bit hacky, but the way I do that is to do a substitute with the
'start of line' token in the regexp. That way you can use a standard vim range
e.g. 1,10 to do lines 1 to 11

I just do e.g. :{range}s/^/# /

Probably not the best way to do it. Is there a prepend command in vim? That
would be more appropriate.
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