From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to append text to end of each line Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1368467242827-285911.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368471835 18223 80.91.229.3 (13 May 2013 19:03:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:03:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 13 21:03:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uby2I-0005JQ-Go for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uby2I-0000yz-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46023) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uby25-0000xo-On for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uby24-0005Tm-8k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52551) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uby24-0005TX-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uby23-00059Q-7c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:35 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:35 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <1368467242827-285911.post@n5.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90716 Archived-At: On 5/13/2013 1:47 PM, acomber wrote: > How can I append a set string at the end > of each line. I specifically want to append " For infrequently used tasks like this, I just define and execute a keyboard macro. It's faster than looking up the command in the manual. E.g., - go to the end of the line - add the character - go down one line