How to Delete a Range of Lines in Vim Editor?
In this section, we will see how we can remove or delete the specific range of lines in Vim Editor. Follow the below-described steps to delete the range of lines.
Step 1: After opening the file in the Vim Editor, we need to use the ‘ESC‘ key to switch from the Insert mode to the Edit Mode.
Step 2: After switching to the edit mode, we need to enter the command through which we can delete the specific range of lines.
:3,8d
Step 3: After entering this command and hitting the Enter Key, we can see that the specified range of lines from the document has been successfully deleted.
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