Re: Marking lines for deletion

> While AK has provided another terse answer (use line-wise visual mode), if
> there's something notable about the end, you can often use it as a motion
> such as
>
>  d}
>
> to delete from the current location down to the next blank line.  If you
> want to force an otherwise-character-wise motion to be line-wise, you can
> use "V" as an infix operator:
>
>  dV}
>
> as detailed at
>
>  :help o_V
>
> (a subsection of the corresponding "FORCING A MOTION TO BE LINEWISE,
> CHARACTERWISE OR BLOCKWISE")
>
> Reading through
>
>  :help motion.txt
>
> gives you an abundance of motions you can use with operators (such as "d" in
> your case) that can make your editing much faster.
>
> -tim
>
>

Thanks, Tim, I will go through those docs.

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