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Append text to end of lines
Submitted by proee on Wednesday, 27 May, 2009 - 22:36
I'm wondering if there's an easy way to do a "block" select across multiple and be able to append text at the end of each line. I usually do this using a rectangular selection, but the rectangular selection is rigid and I would like to find a way to append to the end of the line in it's natural position.

That is, I'm looking for a rectangular selection that can "find" the end of the line as I drag the across multiple lines. I believe this is something that textmate does so I'm sure it's possible...
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Regular Expression
by Robert Schwenn on Fri, 29/05/2009 - 19:43
Rectangular selection can't help You in this case. Select the lines non-rectangulary, so that the line ends are included. Then search and replace with the "Regular Expression" option enabled:

search for: \n
replace with: text_to_append\n

That's all.
Robert
 
Regexp method
by proee on Mon, 01/06/2009 - 16:49
Robert,

Thanks for the reply. This is what I've been doing, just wondering if there is a feature in jEdit to do this naively that I did not know about.

Maybe it's a feature request for a future release...
I usually do it with a tempor
by gsawyer9 on Thu, 28/05/2009 - 22:05
I usually do it with a temporary macro, but I guess that could get tiresome if you need to do it often.

Best,
Gary.
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