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

To cut and paste by line numbers (do :set number to see the line numbers), for lines x to y do:

:x,yd

or if your cursor is already on line x, do

:,yd

Then go to where you want to paste and press p