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Title of the text This line contains a word that is matched by the pattern and it should be deleted. Next line is supposed to be deleted as well. Loren ipsum dolorem... This line contains a word that is matched by the pattern and it should be deleted. And this one should be deleted The end of the article How to delete every pair of lines matching the first line, e.g. 'This line contains a word...' and the line after that one. Result would be:
Title of the text Loren ipsum dolorem... The end of the article 
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In order to delete lines matching a pattern in a file using vim editor, you can use ex command, g in combination with d command.
The ex command g is very useful for acting on lines that match a pattern. You can use it with the d command, to delete all lines that contain a particular pattern, or all lines that do not contain a pattern.
Immediately after opening a file, type “gg” to move the cursor to the first line of the file, assuming it is not already there. Then type dG to delete all the lines or text in it.
You can use
:g/word/normal 2dd This finds all instances of word and then executes the command after it. In this case it executes 2dd in normal mode
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Use :g[lobal] with a d[elete] command with a ,+1 range to delete matched line and the next:
:g/word/,+1d :global:delete
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