To insert one or more lines of new text into the edit buffer, use
the i subcommand.
- You can specify the subcommand in one of two ways, depending on
how you want to identify the line that the new lines are to be inserted before:
- If you know the number of the line that you want to insert the
new lines before, enter:
ni
where n is
the number of that line.
- To identify the line that the new lines are to be inserted before
by words or a string of characters in the line (known as a regular expression), enter:
/regexp/i
where regexp is one or more words or a string of characters.
- Enter the new lines.
- End the insert by typing a . (period) on a line by
itself.