Re: Delete lines matching expression?

On 2013-09-10 07:21, Chris Lott wrote:
> > For example, replace all lines containing test to nottest:
> > :%s/test/nottest/c
> > Instead, is there some way to delete all lines containing test,
> > with confirmation?
>
> Not sure about the confirmation step. This kind of things works for
> the deleting of lines matching a pattern "test":
>
> :%g/test/d

If you do need confirmation, you can do

:%s/.*test.*\n//\c

If you don't need confirmation, Chris gave the standard solution,
except that the "%" is optional since :g defaults to the whole file.

For the record, the :g command can be inverted to delete every line
that *doesn't* match "test" by using

:v/test/d

-tim




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