How to delete all lines matching a pattern and a line after in Vim?

Question

There's a text

Title of the text

This line contains a word that is matched by the pattern and it should be deleted.
Next line is supposed to be deleted as well.

Loren ipsum dolorem...

This line contains a word that is matched by the pattern and it should be deleted.
And this one should be deleted

The end of the article

How to delete every pair of lines matching the first line, e.g. 'This line contains a word...' and the line after that one. Result would be:

Title of the text

Loren ipsum dolorem...

The end of the article

Solution 1

You can use

:g/word/normal 2dd

This finds all instances of word and then executes the command after it. In this case it executes 2dd in normal mode

Solution 2

Use :g[lobal] with a d[elete] command with a ,+1 range to delete matched line and the next:

:g/word/,+1d

• :global
• :delete
• command ranges

Solution 3

You can use the :g[lobal] command:

:g/This line/norm 3dd

Solution 4

another way with :g

:g/word/norm dj

Solution 5

You may want to try this:

:g/your pattern go here/d

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