Re: Delete whole line with substitute

Thank you Christian for detailed solution. I repeat your advice a couple of minutes after your reply)

2011/9/14 Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org>

On Wed, September 14, 2011 11:32 am, Михаил Голубев wrote:
> I got one silly question: I want to delete all lines matching pattern
> completely, but I :%s/.*{PATTERN}.*// delete only text till the end of
> line.
> Using :s/^$// after doesnt't work also.
> Is where a simple way to do such substitution?

Usually, one uses the :g or :v command for that, e.g.
to delete all lines matching foobar
:g/foobar/d _
and to delete all lines NOT matching foobar
:v/foobar/d _

But of course you can achieve the same using a :s command. In your case
you only forgot to include the "\n" in your pattern, so Vim leaves it
in, which means you still have an empty line, but including it in your
:s command should also work:

:%s/foobar\n//

deletes all lines ending in foobar.

regards,
Christian

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