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    Ugh, I'll never remember all these vim shortcuts. The Windows shortcuts are just so much more intuitive. Commented May 27, 2011 at 14:45
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    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. Commented May 27, 2011 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. Commented May 28, 2011 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 Commented Jan 26, 2012 at 8:09
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    To add to this: run vimtutor from the commandline to get familiar with them @ripper234 Commented Jun 13, 2012 at 22:32