Thanks a lot for all your comments! For this particular purpose, the visual way is perfect. However, I am still interested in the regex way, because that will allow me to do other things with the paragraph and not only adding a char at the beginning.
Note that you can do a lot with the visual selection, too, and Ex commands with a range of '<,'> which means from the start to the end of the visual selection. For instance, to do a substitution in the current paragraph: :normal vip :'<,'>s/foo/bar Ben. -- 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
