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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
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Subject: Re: elisp how to insert text at end of each line
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acomber <deedexy@gmail.com> writes:

> I tried:
>
>   (while (search-forward "\n")
>      (insert "My text to insert")
>   )
>
> and tried using $ symbol.

>From LISP: You want `search-forward-regexp'.  Or better, use
`end-of-line'.

Interactively:

C-M-%           (query-replace-regexp)
$ RET
some text RET

Or indeed, multiple-cursors.el also does things like that very well.


Regards,

Michael.