Btw Christian, Jürgen -- both of those solutions worked like a charm! Amazing stuff, really. I only just got around to trying them.
Thanks!! -Sid On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Jürgen Krämer <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi, > > Siddhartha Kasivajhula wrote: > > Hi VI gurus, > > I have a text document with ~500 lines. I want to add a numbering ~to~ > > this document at the beginning of every line. So for example if it's: > > > > This is sentence 1 > > This is sentence 2 > > And this is sentence 3 > > > > I want it to become: > > > > 1. This is sentence 1 > > 2. This is sentence 2 > > 3. And this is sentence 3 > > > > Is there a way to do this in VI? To be clear, I want to actually add the > > numbering to the document, as opposed just have line numbering of the > > document in a sidebar. > > :%s/^/\=line('.') . '. '/ > > Regards, > Jürgen > > -- > Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vim_use+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
