How to Move Lines in Vim

The aim of this page📝 is to memorize line movements in Vim.

Pavol Kutaj

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Oct 26, 2022

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1. NOTES

• If I want to swap one line with the line above I usually do the following

dd🠉🠋P

• dd will delete the line you want to move
• it also copies it to the clipboard (pops a line)
• 🠉🠋 moves up or down to where you want to insert the line
• capital P will paste

2. LINKS

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/741814/move-entire-line-up-and-down-in-vim