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How to Delete All Lines in Vim

The answerPress gg then dG — jump to the first line, delete to the last. Or run :%d.

All the ways

Keys	What it does
`ggdG`	delete every line
`:%d`	same, as an ex command
`ggVGd`	same, via visual mode
`:2,$d`	delete everything except line 1

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