Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)

Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by tgb on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:57PM (#23094218)

I've always thought that doing 5dd and such was a bad demonstration of Vi(m) since I never know how many lines to delete. I'll just dd multiple times. More powerful vim commands are like daw (delete all of a paragraph), di) (delete inside of a set of parentheses), and dtX (delete until the character X).

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by leephillips on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:29PM (#23094597)

daw deletes the word you are in (delete a word). But dap deletes a paragraph. And you can tell vi what you mean by "word" and "paragraph" (I think) in your settings file.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by tgb on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:03PM (#23098012)

Good catch, I meant dap.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by pletnes on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:06PM (#23094316)

If you use relative line numbers, 5dd makes total sense.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by tgb on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:14PM (#23094428)

I tried this for a while but it never clicked for me. I prefer using semantically-meaningful groupings like paragraphs or parentheses, it just seems nicer. And relative line numbers wouldn't make, say, 5dw any easier to count.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by lenkite on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:28AM (#23122748)

You can use: df<char> to delete forward (including char), dt<char> to delete forward until char. (excluding char) d/<search><Enter> to delete until search pattern is found

In case you wish to type immediately after deleting, replace 'd' with 'c' in the above.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by ecnahc515 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:03PM (#23095631)

Also to add to this, dt/pattern_string_here is really handy for deleting until the occurrence of some pattern.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by gen220 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:15PM (#23094440)

My shorthand when I don’t know the number of lines is dj followed by a bunch of .’s :)

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by mikelward on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:44PM (#23096073)

I prefer Vim's visual mode (Shift+V) for that.

But yes, `dap` and friends are options too.

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