I was wondering if there was a way of matching the end of a file in Notepad++ other than putting myself there a special combination of characters. By default, $ seems to match the end of the line, and not the end of a file.
Thanks
Making Notepad++’s $ match the end of the file instead of the end of the line
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Related Solutions
Toggle the setting View > Show Symbol > Show End of Line
As Xenorose notes, Show All Characters should also be unchecked.
You can produce the desired behaviour using the Notepad++ Shortcut Mapper. From the menu, select Settings > Shortcut Mapper..., click the Scintilla commands button, and scroll down to SCI_LINEENDWRAPEXTEND.
In my install of Notepad++, this command has no keyboard shortcut by default. Double-click the entry and select Shift and End on the Shortcut dialog. Click the Add button, then the OK button.
Now you need to get rid of the old shortcut: find the entry for SCI_LINEENDEXTEND and edit it. Change the shortcut to something you're unlikely to use, like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-End, then click OK.
Pressing Shift-End should now select the current line to the right side of the screen as desired. Pressing it again should extend the selection to the next line.
Best Answer
You can try the following regex to match the end of your file:
According to the regex documentation referenced by the Notepad++ Wiki
\zmatches at the end of a buffer only. A buffer in this context is the whole of the input text.