How to delete line(s) below current line in vim?

Question

Is there a command to delete a line (or several lines) that is immediately below current line? Currently I'm doing it as: jdd and then . to repeat as needed. Is there a command that would combine all these?

UPDATE: The reason I would like to have such command is that I don't like to move away from current position, yet be able to delete lines below.

Answer 1

You could define a little function that does exactly what you described: delete the next number lines below the current line and restore initial cursor position.

function! DeleteNextLines(number)
    let line = line('.')
    let cnt = min([a:number, line('$') - line])
    if 0 < cnt
        let col = col('.')
        execute 'normal! j' . cnt . 'dd'
        call cursor(line, col)
    endif
endfunction

Also, I recommend defining a command that accepts count and call this function with appropriate number of lines to delete:

command! -range=1 DD call DeleteNextLines(<count>)

(Additionally you could define a mapping for :DD, if it's necessary.)

Answer 2

You could enter the number of lines to delete: j 20 dd k.

Answer 3

This will delete ALL lines below the current one:

jdG

Unfortunately that will move the cursor to the beginning of current line after the deletion is made.

Answer 4

This is a job for marks!

Try maj20dd`a

ma sets the file-specific mark 'a', j20dd does the deletion you want (20 lines in this case), and `a restores you to the mark's position (line and column).

Obviously this pattern can be extended to do anything you want before returning to the mark. If you use mA (or any other capital letter) the mark will actually be unique across files, so you can even edit elsewhere before returning. If you have a very frequent usage you could make it a macro as suggested above.

Answer 5

The delete ex command will work nicely.

:+,$d

This will delete all the lines from current +1 till the end ($)

For more information

:h :d