Thank you Christian for detailed solution. I repeat your advice a couple of
minutes after your reply)

2011/9/14 Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>

> On Wed, September 14, 2011 11:32 am, Михаил Голубев wrote:
> > I got one silly question: I want to delete all lines matching pattern
> > completely, but I :%s/.*{PATTERN}.*// delete only text till the end of
> > line.
> > Using :s/^$// after doesnt't work also.
> > Is where a simple way to do such substitution?
>
> Usually, one uses the :g or :v command for that, e.g.
> to delete all lines matching foobar
> :g/foobar/d _
> and to delete all lines NOT matching foobar
> :v/foobar/d _
>
> But of course you can achieve the same using a :s command. In your case
> you only forgot to include the "\n" in your pattern, so Vim leaves it
> in, which means you still have an empty line, but including it in your
> :s command should also work:
>
> :%s/foobar\n//
>
> deletes all lines ending in foobar.
>
> regards,
> Christian
>
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