[PLUG] Emacs Replace At End of Line

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I'm trying to replace a '\n' with '),\n', but haven't figured out 
> the proper syntax. The search is specified with \$, but if I specify 
> the replacement as ),\$ the editor wants to keep adding '),' to the 
> end of the same line.
>
>   My ORA emacs book has no explicit examples (pages 57-65), and 
> replacing at the begging and ending of lines is a frequent 
> occurrence with me that always leads to spending a lot of time and 
> failing to get it right.
>
>   Cluesticks greatly appreciated.

Use vim. :-)

   :%s!$!),!

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