Assorted Handy vim Commands, Part 1

Posted on January 28, 2009

To reverse the order of lines, eg 1-5
: 1,5 g/^/m0
For example,

one
two
three
four
five

becomes

five
four
three
two
one

To remove blank lines
: %g/^$/d

Delete all lines that don’t contain “string”
: %v/string/d

1. Gage says:

   November 13, 2009 at 5:54 pm

   Nice! I love vim, I wish you would explain how the lines switching one works but ah well.

   Part 2 coming?

   Reply