Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Re: delete between lines problem

On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 5:16:01 AM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">I often find myself with this kind of problem. I would like to go from this
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> main :: IO ()
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> main = first line of something  -- cursors is somewhere here
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>        second line of something
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> to this
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> main :: IO ()
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> main = second line of something
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> Generally speaking, i move through &quot;first line of something&quot; with &#39;w&#39; and &#39;b&#39;, press &#39;D&#39; and then &#39;x&#39;... but the latter part is not working as I expect (i.e. bringing &#39;up&#39; the second line).
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> I looked in the manual on how to modify x behaviour, but I wondered if there is another (more simple or more &#39;correct&#39;) solution
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> Thanks in advance
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> -F
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> </span></span>

You probably want the "join" command. Just press J after deleting what you don't want. gJ will do the same thing but won't remove any whitespace. From command-line mode, :join and :join! are the equivalents.

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