Vim - delete up to searched string

Question

Is there a VIM command / key combination that would do something like dt/mystring (which doesn't work)?

dta tries to find letter a on current line, but I'd like to delete everything up to searched string (possibly on some other line).

Solution 1

Try this

d/mystring

It won't delete the string itself.

Solution 2

d/mystring deletes everything up to mystring

Edit: aww, too slow :/

Solution 3

Greg Reynolds provided a working solution.
Alternatively if the search pattern is already defined, use:

dn

the n motion is exclusive, so the first character of your pattern won't be eaten.

Another alternative with the Easymotion plugin you can use <leader><leader>t<first letter of pattern (typically leader is backslash) ; then the character just before the pattern will turn into a letter; type this letter and you're done.

Comments

[Sudheer]

This does the job. After the deletion, I have to press :noh to remove the highlighting of search term. Is there a way to delete till search string and not highlight further searches?