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Delete the whole line

DD

Mac Desktop app Vim default commands

Practice this

Press D, then D to delete the whole line in Vim.

Where it works: Normal mode

Press the small letter, without Shift. Vim is case sensitive, and the capital letter is a different command.

Every documented variant

Variants of this shortcut
System	Environment	Keys
Linux	Desktop app	`DD`
Mac	Desktop app	`DD`

Where this comes from

Vim help: index.txt - vim/vim

Documentation checked on 2026-09-14. That is a documentation review, not a test run inside the application.

The same task in other apps

Delete the line at the caret Android Studio Cmd + Delete
Delete a line of text DBeaver Cmd + D
Delete the line Godot Engine Cmd + Shift + K
Delete the current line IntelliJ IDEA Cmd + Backspace
Delete the whole line Notepad++ Ctrl + Shift + L
Delete the line RStudio Cmd + D
Delete the line Sublime Text Cmd + Shift + K
Remove the current code line Visual Studio Code Cmd + Shift + K
Delete the line Zed Cmd + Shift + K

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