> What I want to do is to find every line starting with 'delete' and
> delete from the 'aaaa' line till the 'bbbb' line.
>
> I thought about using a global command to do that, but I can't get it
> working.
You're on the right track. Assuming your bracketing lines always
exist in parity around your lines-to-delete, you can do something
like
:g/^delete/?aaaa?,/bbbb/d
which roughly translates to
/^delete/ on lines matching "^delete"
?aaaa? go backwards to find "aaaa"
, through
/bbbb/ going forward from "aaaa" to the line with "bbbb"
d delete this range ("aaaa" through "bbbb")
Odd edge cases occur if they can be arbitrarily nested, if the
start/end (aaaa/bbbb) lines don't always occur, or if your
aaaa/bbbb patterns happen to contain "^delete". But for the
general case, the above should do the trick.
-tim
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