Question

When I cut and paste in VIM by pressing v, and go to the end of the line using $, and press d, the next line gets moved up to the same line I’m cutting.

How do I stop this?

Answer 1

It moves up because you have removed all the characters including line return/feed.

There are multiple solutions as usual with Vim. There is no “one true way” but you can try the following commands.

• You can use D (capital) in normal mode which will erase everything until the end of line.

  See :help D

• Using another motion

  What you could do instead of using $ to move to the end of the line, use g_. It will move to the last non blank character of the line and won’t select line return.

  See :help g_

  So vg_d should work as you want.

• Using Replace

  Alternatively, what you could do instead of cutting, you could replace the erased character by a blank using the space character.

  So v$rSPACE should work to erase but it will not save the replaced characters in register (for pasting later for example).