vi to delete from the beginning of the line till the cursor

Question

How can we use vim to delete characters from the beginning of the line till the cursor. Say, we have a string "hello world" while the cursor is on "w". How can we delete from "h" till "w".

Solution 1

Try d0. 0 denotes the beginning of the line.

Solution 2

I believe that the following should work (d^):

d^

This assumes that you only want to delete to the h even if there is white space in front of it. It will leave the white space.

Solution 3

TLDR: The easiest way is to do the following

• use the navigate mode
• set the cursor at whatever line you want

  • press dgg - this will remove everything from cursor to the beginning
  • press dG - this will remove all the lines from cursor till the end of the doc.

But why?

gg - goes to the begin of the document
G - navigates at its very end
d - delete mode

I was also looking for some combinations with the notation of d and line number, and when you are editing huge files like GB in size I found it bit annoying. Like to remove first 3 lines you need to do this :0,d3, but when the docu is over 1mln lines its tough for my eyes to read this crap...

Solution 4

The other suggestions didn't work for me, but I used visual mode to achieve this.

I moved the cursor to the position I wanted to delete through, and hit v to enter visual mode. Then I hit ^ to select back to the beginning of the current line, and then d to delete all of the highlighted text.

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Comments

[Daan Bakker]

If you are in insert mode you can use <C-U>.

[Indrajeet Gour]

not sure what happened but when I enter the d0, the line got deleted from my cursor location to start of the line.

[sherrellbc]

@YouAreAwesome That is exactly what d0 does, and what OP was asking for.