On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:24 -0800, Jason wrote: > I have a file that contains a bunch of lines with only the word "foo" > on it. > > I want go through the entire file and remove the lines with the words > "foo". Not just remove the word, but the entire line. > > How is this done in vim? > > I tried :%s/foo//g > > but it left the line > > thank you! > > >
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