On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:33 PM, David Kahn wrote: > I am guessing this should be a real simple question but cant find an answer > readily: > > If I want to remove all contents of a line, I press 'd' twice. But in most > cases I want the line to still be there (meaning the space, so after > deleting I would have a blank line), so I tend to find myself when deleting > afterward replacing the line (like shift + O). > > So if I am making any sense, is there a way to remove all contents of a line > without removing the line itself (I guess similarly to using x to delete a > character but for a whole line)?
0D will delete all text from the line. ^D will delete all text starting from the first non-blank character. More details on: :help 0 :help ^ :help D Israel -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php