One of the nice, well-thought things about $ (end of line) and its inverse, ^ (beginning of line), is they have exactly the same meaning in normal mode as they

One of the nice, well-thought things about $ (end of line) and its inverse, ^ (beginning of line), is they have exactly the same meaning in normal mode as they do in regular expressions (with a small caveat that ^ ignores whitespace, so it's not so much the beginning of the line as it is the beginning of text on that line).