On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2009-08-24, drlatex wrote:
> > Hello there vimmers,
> >
> > I was wondering if I could remove everything in a file up to AND
> including a
> > certain word within the file.
> >
> > Let's say I have something like ".......hello word123"
> >
> > And I want only 123 to remain.
> >
> > Is there a way to delete everything up to and including the string "hello
> > word" ??
> >
> > I know that this particular string only comes up once in the file.
>
> :%s/\_.*hello word//
>
> See
>
> :help /\_.
Gary takes the prize. However, if you're "interactive" and you happen to be
on the spot you want to delete from, you could also do this:
d/hello word\zs
Regs,
Derek
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