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Accidentally I managed to copy-paste a paragraph in vim a zillion times. How do I select and then delete the text from my current position to the end of file?

In Windows, this would be Ctrl-Shift-End, followed by Delete.

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vGx

Enter visual mode, go to end of file, delete.

Alternatively, you can do:

vggx

To delete from the current position to the beginning of the file.

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Ugh, I'll never remember all these vim shortcuts. The Windows shortcuts are just so much more intuitive. – ripper234 May 27 '11 at 14:45
Personally, I find vim's to be more intuitive. V, enter visual mode G, almost like "go", to the end of the file. And x, remove. – Mark Szymanski May 27 '11 at 14:46
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@ripper234: don't try to remember "snippets" to do specific tasks, focus on the subcommands. That's part of the magic of vim: using these smaller commands to build up larger, more complex things. It's almost infinitely flexible. – Reid May 28 '11 at 16:38
And it really helps a lot to take the time and read through the related vim-help-sections with :h command-you-need-help-for – Gjallar Jan 26 '12 at 8:09
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To add to this: run vimtutor from the commandline to get familiar with them @ripper234 – Bernhard Jun 13 '12 at 22:32
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d is delete and G moves to the end of the file, so dG will delete to the end of the file. It includes the entire current line though; if you're mid-line and want to preserve everything before the current position you need to use Mark's method

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You could also just type u to undo the changes that resulted in the errant copy-paste.

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Yet another method: :.,$d

That means in ex mode, address current line to end, and delete.

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