How to delete line(s) below current line in vim?

Question

Is there a command to delete a line (or several lines) that is immediately below current line? Currently I'm doing it as: jdd and then . to repeat as needed. Is there a command that would combine all these?

UPDATE: The reason I would like to have such command is that I don't like to move away from current position, yet be able to delete lines below.

Answer 1

The delete ex command will work nicely.

:+,$d 

This will delete all the lines from current +1 till the end ($)

To delete the next 2 lines the follow range would work, +1,+2 or shorthand +,+2

:+,+2d 

As @ib mentioned the :delete or :d command will move the cursor to the start of the line next to the deleted text. (Even with nostartofline set). To overcome this we can issue the `` normal mode command. `` will jump back to the exact position before the last jump, in this case the :d command. Our command is now

:+,+2denter``

Or as one ex command

:+,+2d|norm! `` 

To make this easier we wrap this all up in a command:

command! -count=1 -register D :+,+<count>d <reg><bar>norm! `` 

Now to delete the next following 3 lines:

:3D 

This command can also take a {reg} like :delete and :yank do. So deleting the next 4 lines into register a would be:

:4D a 

For more information

:h :d :h :command :h :command-register :h :command-count :h ``