Intellij IDEA way of editing multiple lines

Question

I've seen this done in TextMate and I was wondering if there's a way to do it in IDEA.

Say I have the following code:

 leaseLabel = "Lease";
 leaseLabelPlural = "Leases";
 portfolioLabel = "Portfolio";
 portfolioLabelPlural = "Portfolios";
 buildingLabel = "Building";

What is the best way to append '+ "foo"' to every line? Column mode won't work since the lines are not correctly aligned on the right side... unless there is an easy way to right justify the text :P

Thx in advance!!

Answer 1

You may use regular expressions with match variables. Basically, match your line with

([^;]+);

and replace with

$1 + "foo";

Or something similar.

Answer 2

I just use the macros for this sort of thing. I start recording the macro, do it once, then play back the macro on each line I want to modify. You'd be amazed at how fancy you can get with the macro record/playback feature.

Answer 3

In this case you can also just select the piece of code in which you want to do this and perform a replace on it. Replace:

";

with:

" + "foo";

So in case you didn't know: If you have text selected while you perform a replace (Ctrl+R or Cmd+R) it will only apply to the selected piece of text.

Answer 4

does there have a easy way to reverse the String ?

make leaseLabel = "Lease"; ------> ;"esaeL" = lebeLeseal