How to cut an entire line in vim and paste it

Question

I know how to use the v command in vim  but I need something which will delete an entire line and it should allow me to paste the same line somewhere else

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Let s say that you wanted to cut the line bbb and paste it under the line ---  Before   aaa bbb ---   After   aaa --- bbb    Put your cursor on the line bbb Press d d Put your cursor on the line --- Press p

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There are several ways to cut a line  all controlled by the d key in normal mode  If you are using visual mode  the v key  you can just hit the d key once you have highlighted the region you want to cut  Move to the location you would like to paste and hit the p key to paste    It s also worth mentioning that you can copy cut paste from registers  Suppose you aren t sure when or where you want to paste the text  You could save the text to up to 24 registers identified by an alphabetical letter  Just prepend your command with    single quote  and the register letter  a thru z   For instance you could use the visual mode  v key  to select some text and then type  ad to cut the text and store it in register  a   Once you navigate to the location where you want to paste the text you would type  ap to paste the contents of register a

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Go to the line  and first press esc  and then Shift   v    This would have highlighted the line   press d   The line is now deleted   Go to the location  where you wanted to paste the line  and hit p   In a nutshell  Esc - gt  Shift   v - gt  d - gt  p

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Yep  use dd in command line  Also I recommend to print useful image with ViM hotkeys available at http   www viemu com a vi vim graphical cheat sheet tutorial html

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The quickest way I found is through editing mode    Press yy to copy the line  Then dd to delete the line  Then p to paste the line

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Pressing Shift v would select that entire line and pressing d would delete it   You can also use dd  which is does not require you to enter visual mode

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Just three steps    Go to the start of the text  and press v Go to the end of the text  and press d Go to the place that you want to paste  and press p

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Delete current line and copy to clipboard  d   d  Paste After The Cursor p  Paste Before The Cursor Shift   p  Select Whole Line  I use this ALL the time  Shift   v Then j or k to move down and up respectively  Essentially d   d is the equivalent of Shift   v then d

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dd in command mode  after pressing escape  will cut the line  p in command mode will paste   Update   For a bonus  d and then a movement will cut the equivalent of that movement  so dw will cut a word  d lt down-arrow gt  will cut this line and the line below  d50w will cut 50 words   yy is copy line  and works like dd   D cuts from cursor to end of line   If you ve used v  visual mode   you should try V  visual line mode  and  lt ctrl gt v  visual block mode

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press  V  in normal mode to select the entire line then press  y  to copy it  go to the place you want to paste it and press  p  to paste after cursor or  P  to paste before it

[vim] How to cut an entire line in vim and paste it?

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