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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Deleting lines and non-matching lines with VIM
I'm always forgetting how to do this but here's how to delete matching lines:
:g/.*foo.*/d
And the more difficult thing to do that vim makes easy is deleting non-matching lines. All you do is negate the pattern:
:g!/.*foo.*/d
Daily Vim: Text Editor Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, and HOWTOs: Delete Lines Matching Keyword
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