Re: append to non-blank lines in a selection

On Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:23:39 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-06-20, Chris Lott wrote:
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> > Given a text:
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> >
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> > line1 has stuff
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> > so does line 2
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> >
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> > line 4 has more stuff
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> > and line 5
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> > and so on
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> >
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> > I would like to select the text block and append a word to each
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> > non-blank line. I can use a block selection and `A` to add to all
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> > selected lines, but not sure how to only apply to lines that have
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> > text.
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>
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> I don't think there is a way to qualify an operation like A on a
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> visually-selected region like that. However, you can so qualify a
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> :substitute command. Select the text block and type
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>
>
> :g/./s/$/word/
>

Since you don't like regex (although you're right, you should learn), you could alternatively do it like you've always done with A:

:g/./normal! Aword

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