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- [Instructor] Ken Thompson said, "One of my most productive days "was throwing away a thousand lines of code." Deleting text is an important part of writing, and Vim makes it easy. Can you guess the command for deleting text? It's d. Let's open persistence.txt, vim persistence.txt. And now to delete, type d. Nothing happens. The d command needs to know what to delete. Now type w. And the first word was deleted. dw stands for delete word. To undo, hit u. Now let's delete a sentence. Remember that the sentence motion is the closing braces, so d and closing braces. And again, u to undo. To delete a line, use dd. And again, u to undo. We can even use regular expression motion to delete. Let's delete everything up to genius. So, d and then /Genius and enter. Remember that d is for delete, and it should be followed by a motion command, such as w. To delete the current line, use dd.

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