On 09/14/11 04:55, Christian Brabandt wrote:
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.
Just be clear (which it looks like the OP figured out), you would
really want
:%s/.*foobar\n//
Otherwise it will just delete from "foobar" through-and-including
the EOL. However, sometimes that *is* what you want, so it's
nice that Vim offers that too.
-tim
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