How to add text at the end of each line in Vim

Question

In Vim  I have the following text   key   gt  value1 key   gt  value2 key   gt  value1111 key   gt  value12 key   gt  value1122222   I would like to add     at the end of each line  The previous text will become the following   key   gt  value1  key   gt  value2  key   gt  value1111  key   gt  value12  key   gt  value1122222    Does anyone know how to do this  Is it possible to use visual block mode to accomplish this

User · Answer

There is in fact a way to do this using Visual block mode. Simply pressing $A in Visual block mode appends to the end of all lines in the selection. The appended text will appear on all lines as soon as you press Esc.

So this is a possible solution:

vip<C-V>$A,<Esc>

That is, in Normal mode, Visual select a paragraph vip, switch to Visual block mode CTRLV, append to all lines $A a comma ,, then press Esc to confirm.

The documentation is at :h v_b_A. There is even an illustration of how it works in the examples section: :h v_b_A_example.

User · Answer

Following Macro can also be used to accomplish your task   qqA   0jq4 q

User · Answer

This will do it to every line in the file     s        If you want to do a subset of lines instead of the whole file  you can specify them in place of the     One way is to do a visual select and then type the    It will fill in    lt    gt  for you  then you type the rest of it  Notice you only need to add s           lt    gt s

User · Answer

Another solution  using another great feature      lt    gt norm A    See  help  normal

User · Answer

If you want to add     at end of the lines starting with  key   use     s key     amp

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The substitute command can be applied to a visual selection  Make a visual block over the lines that you want to change  and type    and notice that the command-line is initialized like this     lt    gt   This means that the substitute command will operate on the visual selection  like so      lt    gt s        And this is a substitution that should work for your example  assuming that you really want the comma at the end of each line as you ve mentioned  If there are trailing spaces  then you may need to adjust the command accordingly      lt    gt s  s        This will replace any amount of whitespace preceding the end of the line with a comma  effectively removing trailing whitespace   The same commands can operate on a range of lines  e g  for the next 5 lines     5s       or for the entire buffer    s

User · Answer

s     g     matches end of line

User · Answer

ex mode is easiest     s        - enter command mode   - for every line s  - substitute   - the end of the line   - and change it to   - a comma

User · Answer

I have  lt M-DOWN gt  alt down arrow  mapped to  lt DOWN gt   so that I can repeat the last command on a series of lines very quickly  with this mapping I can   A  lt ESC gt    And then hold alt while pressing down repeatedly to append the comma to the end of each line  This works well for me because it allows very good control over what lines do and do not get the change   I also have the other arrows mapped similarly to allow for easy repeating of     Here s the mapping line to paste into your vimrc   map  lt M-DOWN gt   lt DOWN gt

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