Vim (17) Visual Block Mode

Want to delete lines in Vim? Well, it is pretty easy as all you have to do is press dd and it will remove the line where your cursor is located.

Press the Esc key to go to normal mode. · Place the cursor on the line you want to delete. · Type dd and hit Enter to remove the line.

To delete multiple lines, enter the normal mode and move the cursor to the first line you want to remove. Use one of the following commands ( ... Deleting Lines in Vim · Delete a Range of Lines · Delete From Current Line to...

I've got a large text file (+100k long rows) that I've been using vim to edit, I would like to remove rows in a given range ie do something like delete rows ...

This will delete all the lines from current +1 till the end ($). To delete the next 2 lines the follow range would work, +1,+2 or shorthand +,+2

:d deletes the lines. If it's just one line, or a range of lines, you could do :<num>d or :<start>,<end>d (e.g., :5d for the fifth line, or ...

To delete multiple non-consecutive lines in Vim, you can use visual mode. Start by pressing v to enter visual mode, then move the cursor to ...

I wanted to use the :global command to delete all lines of a file except the current line and the next. I understand that global works on {patterns} instead of ...

From line {range}, to the cursor position, search 'globally' for all instances between a blank line, until the next start of line character, and join those ...

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 that ...