Re: Delete whole line with substitute

On Wed, September 14, 2011 3:19 pm, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 09/14/11 04:55, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Just be clear (which it looks like the OP figured out), you would
> really want
>
> :%s/.*foobar\n//
>
> Otherwise it will just delete from "foobar" through-and-including
> the EOL. However, sometimes that *is* what you want, so it's
> nice that Vim offers that too.

True. Thanks for the clarification.

regards,
Christian

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