[joslin01]

I'm guessing you mean "dd" and "yy" to delete/yank lines. "x" deletes a single character, what you mean extract a line?

If you learn "w", which just means advance by a word, you can combine them with your existing knowledge for much better use. So "dw" becomes delete a word, or "d3w" means delete next 3 words. "v" is also useful in conjunction with "w" / "b".

[bArray]

I would either:

* SHIFT+V to highlight a line, `d` to delete * `:d` to delete the current line

Not experimented with `dd` (or `yy`).

[cyphar]

SHIFT+V + 'd' is a longer way of doing 'dd'. SHIFT+V + 'y' is a longer way of doing 'yy'.

You can also delete and yank multiple lines by using 'd2d' (delete two lines) or similar. You can also delete lines upwards by using a movement command like 'dk' (or 'd2k' if you want to delete the two lines above).

[bArray]

I quite like the visual confirmation that I'm not about to do something stupid, to me that's worth paying the cost of an extra key.

And I jump between enough systems that I doubt myself with stuff like: is `d1d` or `d0d` or `dd` equal?

[caseymarquis]

'[d|c]iw', to delete/change the word your inside of is another small improvement.

[_frog]

I'm also a big fan of `ci[(|'|"]` to change all the text between a pair of delimiters. I can type `ci"` while my cursor's at the start of the line, and it'll jump to the first set of double quotes, remove the text that's currently between them, and enter edit mode.

[the_white_oak]

You can also use `cib` to change text between braces and `ciB` to change text between curly braces.

[LyndsySimon]

Isn't this part of vim-surround?

http://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

[mercer]

I'm fairly sure that works out of the box. I get annoyed when another editor's VIM mode doesn't properly emulate it.