title: Multiline Editing in VIM (Using Marks)
body: <p>Does anyone know of a pre-existing technique to edit multiple lines in VIM using Marks or something similar?  I use Shift+I / Shift+A when visually selecting columns to insert before and after, it would be nice to something similar with "uneven" or "Jagged" lines.</p>
  
  <p>Example of "Jagged" Lines:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="new/link/"&gt; same link &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="new/link/to/another/area/"&gt; next link &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="old/link/same/content/"&gt; same size &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="interesting/tmp/same/info/"&gt; size same &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="to/a/great/place/known/the_same/"&gt; what link &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="another/new/link/"&gt; this link &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="into/links/"&gt; some link &lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this example, I'd want to adjust the internal text of the link: "same link", "next link", "same size" etc.  </p>
  
  <p>This could easily be done with a regular expression, but would also be nice if it could be done with marks somehow.</p>
  
  <p>Example Workflow:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Go to begining of each similar sized item to edit</li>
  <li>Mark with '[a-z,A-z] etc.</li>
  <li><code>:MarkInsertMode</code>  # &lt;&lt; Something Similar to this, ideally mapped</li>
  <li>Then it works just as Shift+A or Shift+I, editing shows on single line and updates on all lines</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Most likely if there are no answers for this one I'll be writing a script to do it, but I'm curious if anything like this is out there so far.</p>