DELETE BLANK LINES IN A FILE

Deleting a Line. To delete a line, position the cursor anywhere on the line and type dd . The line and the space it occupied are removed.

Delete a Range of Lines. To delete a range of lines, use Esc to switch to normal mode in Vim and run the following command: :[from],[to]d

Press Esc come to command mode press v enter visual mode Shift + g selects everything from current position to EOF DEL delete selected.

I find this easier. Go VISUAL mode Shift + v; Select lines; d to delete.

To delete the line under the cursor, use dd . The delete command accepts all the normal positional modifiers, so if you are on the beginning of ...

In normal mode, do 100dd. dd deletes the current line. Prefacing that command with 100 causes it to repeat 100 times.

To delete multiple lines, press Esc to leave the insert/editing mode, enter the number of lines you want to delete followed by 'dd' ie ndd.

Highlight the line you want to delete, then hit dd or D on the keyboard. The editor will automatically remove the whole line from the file. Vi ...

The command to delete is d. So, you can move to the beginning of the line, press v, move to the end of the line, and press d. Altogether ...