How to Delete All Lines in Vim

Deleting all files of a document is not a very common use case. Needlessly it has to be done sometimes.

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Problem

I want to delete all lines of my currently opened file. Nothing should be saved.

Solution

1. gg - Move cursor to first line.
2. dG - Delete everything from current position to the last line of the file

To summarize this commands: We move the cursor to the first line of the current document. After that we tell VIM that we want to delete everything to the last line of the document.

Tags

• vim
• vim-repo