{"id":1528,"date":"2016-01-08T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T19:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jungwon.kim\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2016-01-08T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T19:45:44","slug":"in-vim-how-do-i-effectively-insert-the-same-characters-across-multiple-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"In Vim how do I effectively insert the same characters across multiple lines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/9549729\/in-vim-how-do-i-effectively-insert-the-same-characters-across-multiple-lines\">http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/9549729\/in-vim-how-do-i-effectively-insert-the-same-characters-across-multiple-lines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"votecell\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"answercell\">\n<div class=\"post-text\">\n<ol>\n<li>Move the cursor to the <code>n<\/code> in <code>name<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter visual block mode (<kbd>ctrl<\/kbd><kbd>v<\/kbd>).<\/li>\n<li>Press <kbd>j<\/kbd> three times.<\/li>\n<li>Press <kbd><code>I<\/code><\/kbd>.<\/li>\n<li>Type in <code>vendor_<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Press <kbd>esc<\/kbd>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/T1WBi.gif\" alt=\"mini-screencast demonstrating the method\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/9549729\/in-vim-how-do-i-effectively-insert-the-same-characters-across-multiple-lines &nbsp; Move the cursor to the n in name. Enter visual block mode (ctrlv). Press j three times. Press I. Type in vendor_. Press esc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jungwon.kim\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}