On 04/28/2010 01:53 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I use VIM for editing mails. Often I must trim responses, but I do not
know in advance how many lines. Is there a way to mark "start delete",
then J my way down to the last line, and there to active the delete?
While AK has provided another terse answer (use line-wise visual
mode), if there's something notable about the end, you can often
use it as a motion such as
d}
to delete from the current location down to the next blank line.
If you want to force an otherwise-character-wise motion to be
line-wise, you can use "V" as an infix operator:
dV}
as detailed at
:help o_V
(a subsection of the corresponding "FORCING A MOTION TO BE
LINEWISE, CHARACTERWISE OR BLOCKWISE")
Reading through
:help motion.txt
gives you an abundance of motions you can use with operators
(such as "d" in your case) that can make your editing much faster.
-tim
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