title: Placing characters at a specific column in vi
body: <p>Is there a way to place a character at a specific line in vim, even if the line is short?</p>
  
  <p>For example, I'm contributing to a project which has a comment block style which is 79 columns wide, with a comment character at either end e.g.</p>
  
  <pre><code>!--------------!
  ! Comment      !
  ! More Comment !
  !--------------!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it's really annoying to space over to it, even with guessing large numbers (35i&lt; SPACE>&lt; ESC>)</p>
  
  <p>Is there a simple command which will do this for me, or a macro or something I could write?</p>