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I was looking at this vimgolf challenge, and I thought it would be nice to delete specific lines by address. I know I can do this with :<line_number>d, but is there a way to list multiple line numbers for d to be run on? I imagine something like this: :1,4,32d, but of course it doesn't work.

How would this be done?

Sauce McBoss
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The bar | command can be used to separate multiple commands in a single command statement.

Your example could be written as :1d|4d|32d

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/cmdline.html#:\bar

ewatt
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    This executes the commands sequentially -- so :1d|4d would delete the first line, then delete the fourth line, which was the fifth line before the first line was deleted. Doing it in reverse would allow it to be more intuitive -- :32d|4d|1d. – evilsoup Dec 12 '15 at 01:20