[Cialug] vim global replace

[Todd Walton]

I'm using vim in cygwin.

$ vi --version tells me:
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Oct  9 2008 15:23:22)

I've opened a text file and ran:

:s/^/'/g

It only puts a ' on the first line and then stops.  Pushing n tells me
"E35: No previous regular expression".  Pushing & puts another ' on
the first line.

Anybody know what gives?  Ultimately, my goal is to put a pair of '
around the contents of each line.  It's a list of serial numbers.

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Todd