Delete first word of each line

Question

How do I delete first word of each line in Vim?

How about a pattern on each line?

Answer 1

Although this is an old question, if someone else is looking to do this you could do use visual block.

• press ctrl+v
• select all the lines you would want to edit
• now use arrow keys to select the entire word
• press 'x'

That would delete the first word in all the lines. This method is especially very handy to edit log files