How to delete multiple lines in the Vim editor?
In this section, we will see how we can remove the multiple consecutive lines from the Vim Editor. Follow the below steps to delete multiple lines in Vim Editor.
Step 1: After opening the document in the Vim editor, we need to enter the Visual Mode by pressing the key Shift + V on the Keyboard.
Vim Editor Opened in Visual Mode
Step 2: Then we need to select the lines using the up and down keys of the keyboard.
Lines Selected to be deleted
Step 3: After selecting the lines, we need to press the ‘d‘ key on the keyboard to delete the selected line permanently from Vim Editor.
Pressed the d key to delete multiple lines
How to Delete Multiple Lines in vim Editor in Linux
Vim Editor is a Linux terminal-based editor that has various advanced features for editing, but due to its terminal behavior, it is quite difficult to handle some of the operations in Vim. While making a text file, we often need to delete some unwanted lines. If the document consists of more unwanted lines, then deleting them one by one will be a time-consuming task, but in Vim we can delete multiple lines easily by different approaches. In this article, we will all the ways to delete multiple lines, and also we will see some more steps to delete a range of lines, delete an entire lines of the file, and also we will see the regular expression-based deletion of lines.
Table of Content
- How to Delete Multiple Lines in Vim Editor?
- How to Delete a Range of Lines in Vim Editor?
- How to delete multiple lines in the Vim editor?
- How to delete the line with a custom pattern in the Vim editor?
- Additional Deletion Custom Pattern in Vim Editor
- How to Delete Multiple Lines in vim Editor in Linux – FAQs
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