a lost vi command

[Susan Macchia]

Vu Pham wrote:
> I thought a friend of mine told me how to do this in VI but now I cannot 
> remember how to do it.
> 
> I have the below sentence:
> 
> this is an example blah1 blah2 blah3.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Could you please remind me ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vu
> ( already gooled, still googling but thought your help is faster that 
> what I am doing ).
> 
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3 dw

That's how I'd do it.

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