a lost vi command

[Dog Walker]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
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> I thought a friend of mine told me how to do this in VI but now I cannot remember how to do it.
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> I have the below sentence:
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> this is an example blah1 blah2 blah3.
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> The cursor is currently at the letter 'e' of the word example. I want to delete the text "example blah1 blah2". IIRC, I was told to use 2 with some command ( or some command with 2 ) but I cannot remember what it is.
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> Could you please remind me ?
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df2

d for delete
f for find
2 argument to f

:help d
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