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Old 11-27-2008
FlyingSquirrel FlyingSquirrel is offline
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Why count lines, use markers instead.

1) Go to the 1st line in range and type in
ma

2) Go to the last line in range and type in
mb

3) Then do the substitution
:'a,'b s/^/*/