Why after pressing $ in normal mode Vim goes to the last symbol in line, but in visual mode it goes on the /n newline symbol?

Question

Is it possible to change that somehow? Either to make Vim go one symbol further in normal mode, or one symbol less in visual mode?

Answer 1

You can make $ go one symbol further in normal mode by enabling setting virtualedit=onemore and remapping $ to g$.

:set virtualedit=onemore
:nnoremap $ g$

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As @statox mentions in the comments

You can also make $ go one symbol less in visual mode with the following mapping:

:vnoremap $ $h 

Answer 2

As far as I know, there's no built-in way to stop visual mode from being inclusive and normal mode from being exclusive.

One could probably remap everything to work like that but that sounds like a bad idea to me.