Cut and paste multiple lines in vim

Question

I\'m running vim 7.3 on a Mac 10.7.2 and I\'m having some trouble cutting and pasting several lines.

On my old Linux setup (which was stolen so I don\'t know versions)

Answer 1

Have you considered using visual mode?

You could just go:

• Press V
• Select everything you want to cut without counting
• Press d
• Go to where you want to paste
• Press p

This should yield approximately half as many keystrokes as the dd method since you press one key per line rather than two. Bonus points if you use 5j (or similar) to select multiple lines at a time.