VI Basics

To delete a word, position the cursor at the beginning of the word and type dw . The word and the space it occupied are removed.

Delete a word. daw. Remember “daw” as “delete a word.” 6. Delete multiple words. 2daw 3daw. Add a number in front of “daw” to delete multiple ...

I have a big bear in my bed. Suppose I have the cursor on bear, in the e position, how would I delete the word bear completely?

At the end of a word ^w works great to quickly delete the word. If you've gone into insert mode, entered some text and used the arrow keys to ...

Use diw to delete inside word. Deletes the entire word that your cursor resides in. Use dt<char> to delete to character. Deletes from your ...

I want to delete certain word in multiple locations ( say I want to delete the word involve form Vi editor and it appear 10000 times) from a ...

Another more general solution is to delete up to the whitespace character using dt (with a space after the t ), which means delete to [character].

TABLE 4.2 vi Commands to Delete Text ; dw. Deletes the current word ; cw. Changes the current word (deletes it and enters input mode) ; r. Replaces ...

Deleting a line in insert mode is the same as deleting any other piece of text: mash the backspace/delete key until that line is gone!