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I have a text file containing 100 lines of words. Need to wrap them all in li tags to display as bullet points on a website. How to do so fast in VS code using some shortcut? If I paste the text in VS code, it takes up 100 lines with one word on each line.

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  • place cursor on line 1 and Shift+Alt+Click on line 100
  • press Home and Shift+End
  • execute command (Ctrl + Shift + P for Windows): Emmet: wrap with abbreviation
  • enter li and Enter
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place a cursor manually for 100 lines? no thanks
@ToveC. use cursor on line 1 and Shift+Alt+Click on line 100
okay that sounds good, let me try. Thanks!
to execute the command, we should press Ctrl + Shift + P
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  1. Hit Ctrl + H
  2. Enable Regular Expression
  3. Enter ^(.*)$ in Find
  4. Enter <li>$1</li> in Replace
  5. Profit
foo bar baz asdad foo bar baz 123

Becomes

<li>foo</li> <li>bar</li> <li>baz asdad</li> <li>foo bar baz 123</li>
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