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Lucas Caton

How to remove several lines in the Vim editor using Regex

Lucas Caton

Lucas Caton

@lucascaton
A quick tip for those who use Vim: if you need to remove several lines that match your regular expression, you can achive that by running
vim
:g /pattern/d
Let's say you want to remove the commented lines from the following file:
ruby
# This is a comment
def foo
end

# This is another comment
def bar
end
Run :g /^#.*/d and your code will become:
ruby
def foo
end

def bar
end
Simple, hey? :)

Post updated at 02/10/2017, 10:00:00