Reputation: 25739

How to delete one or more lines below the current line in Vim?

Is there a command to delete one line or several lines that are immediately below the current line in Vim?

Currently, I'm doing it via jdd and then use . to repeat as needed. Is there a command that would combine all these?

The reason I would like to have such command is that I don't like to move away from the current position, yet be able to delete the lines below it.

Upvotes: 116

Answers (8)

Gowtam Thakur

Reputation: 59

You can also use: Shift + V, Shift + G and Shift + X

Upvotes: 1

Anand Nagaraj

Reputation: 1409

dG should work.
This means delete all rows until end of file from current cursor.

Upvotes: 140

xaa

Reputation: 846

well, to do it simply you could use the xxdd command. Most of the time I know (at least have an idea) the size of the script I am editing. So, the command as below is usually more than enough :

99dd
999dd to remove 999lines starting at the cursor position.
9999dd
99999dd for very long script ;)

Upvotes: 8

mindthief

Reputation: 13383

The other solutions are informative, but I feel it'd be simpler to use a macro for this:

qq (begins recording)

jddk (go down, delete the line, and go back up - i.e. the thing you want to do)

q (end recording)

Now you can do @q to perform this action, maintaining the cursor at the current position. You could also do something like 5@q to delete 5 lines below the cursor.

And finally, if you're repeating the action more than once, you could just type @@ after the first time you run @q (this repeats the last used macro - in this case q)

Upvotes: 4

Peter Rincker

Reputation: 45117

The delete ex command will work nicely.

:+,$d

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

:+,+2d

As @ib mentioned the :delete or :d command will move the cursor to the start of the line next to the deleted text. (Even with nostartofline set). To overcome this we can issue the `` normal mode command. `` will jump back to the exact position before the last jump, in this case the :d command. Our command is now

:+,+2denter``

Or as one ex command

:+,+2d|norm! ``

To make this easier we wrap this all up in a command:

command! -count=1 -register D :+,+<count>d <reg><bar>norm! ``

Now to delete the next following 3 lines:

:3D

This command can also take a {reg} like :delete and :yank do. So deleting the next 4 lines into register a would be:

:4D a

For more information

:h :d
:h :command
:h :command-register
:h :command-count
:h ``

Upvotes: 198

Alex Feinman

Reputation: 5563

This is a job for marks!

Try maj20dd`a

ma sets the file-specific mark 'a', j20dd does the deletion you want (20 lines in this case), and `a restores you to the mark's position (line and column).

Obviously this pattern can be extended to do anything you want before returning to the mark. If you use mA (or any other capital letter) the mark will actually be unique across files, so you can even edit elsewhere before returning. If you have a very frequent usage you could make it a macro as suggested above.

Upvotes: 2