7. Vim Editing

Lesson Content

Now that we have a couple of lines written, let’s edit it a bit more and remove some cruft.

x - used to cut the selected text also used for deleting characters
dd - used to delete the current line
y - yank or copy whatever is selected
yy - yank or copy the current line
p - paste the copied text before the cursor

Exercise

I know this lesson added some oddballs, open up a text editor and play around with these.

Quiz Question

# What character is used to delete an entire line? > Enter nd and hit Enter where n in nd is the line number. For example, if you want to delete the fifth line, then you should use ``` 5d ``` 1. [ ] x 2. [ ] del 3. [ ] yy 4. [x] dd