In article <0f2592de-6665-4b32-92c8-abe261b3f990@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
invincible <imanuk2007@googlemail.com> writes:
> All,
>
> I have a file , which has a single column. I want to append a single
> text string after each string in the whole column.
>
> Tried doing %s/.$/text on vi but this eats away last alphabet on every
> line.
>
> Thankyou

Maybe nedit helps. It allows "paste column".