How to delete range of lines without moving cursor?

[Asis Hallab]

Dear Vimmers,

I was just wondering, if it is possible to delete a range of lines
without moving the cursor.

Example:
line one
line two
line three
current line

:1,2d
Deletes the first two lines and leaves the cursor on line three.

But I would like to leave it on the current position ('current line').

Kind regards!

[Chris Schneider]

Fast answer: do '' right after (' to go to mark, to the ' mark [where you last jumped from]).  

so   :1,2d<enter>''  would do it.

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[Andy Wokula]

Am 16.01.2013 19:16, schrieb Asis Hallab:> Dear Vimmers,

Yep, looks like there is something "wrong" in Vim:

:yank, :change, :append/:insert, :delete
getline(), setline(), append(), ?delete()?

There should be a function delete() to delete lines without moving the
cursor, but the function of this name already deletes a file. And there
is no other equivalent function.

You can use
:h winsaveview()
:h winrestview()
to save/restore the cursor position;
or
:let savpos = getpos(".")
...
:call cursor(savpos[1:])
" or :call setpos(".", savpos)
or a mark ...

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[Asis Hallab]

Interesting!

So, I will have to write my own command for this.
I put this here in my .vimrc

" Delete range without moving cursor:
com! -range D <line1>,<line2>d | norm <C-o>

>> Example:
>> line one
>> line two
>> line three
>> current line

:1,2D

now does the trick.

Many thanks to everyone's feedback.

>>
>> :1,2d
>> Deletes the first two lines and leaves the cursor on line three.
>>
>> But I would like to leave it on the current position ('current line').
>>
>> Kind regards!
>
>
> Yep, looks like there is something "wrong" in Vim:
>
> :yank, :change, :append/:insert, :delete
> getline(), setline(), append(), ?delete()?
>
> There should be a function delete() to delete lines without moving the
> cursor, but the function of this name already deletes a file. And there
> is no other equivalent function.
>
> You can use
> :h winsaveview()
> :h winrestview()
> to save/restore the cursor position;
> or
> :let savpos = getpos(".")
> ...
> :call cursor(savpos[1:])
> " or :call setpos(".", savpos)
> or a mark ...
>
> --
> Andy
>
>