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    copied!<p>I use <code>dw....</code> fairly often to delete a series of words without needing to mentally count them first. In that example, <code>5dw</code> is fewer characters, but I think I am about 3ms faster using the dot command to just repeat the <code>delete word</code> over counting them.</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong> I was just now doing some editing and realized there is another situation that I use the dot command a fair amount. I would imagine there is a much simpler way of handling this type of thing in Vim, but the dot command helps out with the following and similar situations. The following is basically an example of "<em>I did something once, now I want to repeat it a few more times.</em>" I was writing a new test (in C) and needed to embed into it a string constant representing an SQL script that I copied from another place. The original multiline (7 line) script was not enclosed in double quotes, so I did this:</p> <ul> <li>Paste the script directly into the code (7 new lines in the file).</li> <li>Position the cursor on the first new line.</li> <li><kbd>I</kbd><kbd>space</kbd><kbd>space</kbd><kbd>space</kbd><kbd>space</kbd><kbd>"</kbd><kbd>esc</kbd> to insert spaces and an opening quote on the current line.</li> <li><kbd>j</kbd><kbd>.</kbd> six times to add opening quote for each additional line. </li> <li>Re-position to the first line of the pasted text.</li> <li><kbd>A</kbd><kbd>\</kbd><kbd>n</kbd><kbd>"</kbd><kbd>esc</kbd> to put a line feed character and closing quote on the current line.</li> <li><kbd>j</kbd><kbd>.</kbd> six times again to put the closing quote on the remaining lines.</li> </ul>
 

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