How can I quickly delete a line in VIM starting at the cursor position

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I want to be able to delete the remainder of the line I m on starting at the cursor s position in VIM  Is there an easy command to do this   To help illustrate  this is before the command   The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox               ----- Cursor is here    This is after the command  The q              ----- Cursor is here

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Execute in command mode d

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D or dd deletes and copies the line to the register  You can use Vx which only deletes the line and stays in the normal mode

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Edited to include commenter s good additions    D or its equivalent d  will delete the rest of the line and leave you in command mode  C or c  will delete the rest of the line and put you in insert mode  and new text will be appended to the line   This is part of vitutor and vimtutor  excellent  reads  for vim beginners

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Use D  See docs for further information

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This is a very old question  but as VIM is still relevant something should be clarified   Every answer and comment here as of October 2018 has referred to what would commonly be known as a  cut  action  thus using any of them will replace whatever is currently in VIM s unnamed register  This register tends to be treated like a default copy paste clipboard  so none of these answers will work as desired if you are deleting the rest of a line to paste something in the same place afterward  as whatever was just deleted will be subsequently pasted in place of whatever was yanked before   The true delete command in the OP s context is   D  or   C if insert mode is desired  This sends the deleted content into the black hole register  designated by     where it will bother no one ever again  although you can still undo this action using u     That being said  whatever was last yanked is stored in the 0 register  and even if it gets replaced in the unnamed register  it can still be pasted using  0p   Learn more about the black hole register and registers in general for extra VIM fun

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You might also be interested in C  it will also delete the end of line like D  but additionally it will put you in Insert mode at the cursor location

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Press ESC to first go into command mode  Then Press Shift D   https   www fprintf net vimCheatSheet html

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