> I was thinking more like you have some text such as
>
>   case x of
>     5 -> return [(1, 4), (2, 3)]
>     6 -> return [(1, 5), (2, 4), (3, 3)]
>     7 -> return [(1, 6), (2, 5), (3, 4)]
>
> and you suddenly decide you need to change that to
>
>   case x of
>     5 -> return $ Just [(1, 4), (2, 3)]
>     6 -> return $ Just [(1, 5), (2, 4), (3, 3)]
>     7 -> return $ Just [(1, 6), (2, 5), (3, 4)]
>
> It's kinda tedious to do this by hand. (Depending on just how many times 
> you need to do it, obviously...)

In all editors I've used (including POV - try it!), you would hold down the 
Alt key, then click and drag from the top [ to the bottom [ to mark the 
region you want to type into.  Then when you type it gets inserted on every 
line in that region.

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