On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, at 11:11 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Brian Zwahr wrote: > > I'm running into an issue that I'm not sure if it's a feature, a bug, or > > just an oversight. If I open a file in ed, yank some text with `y`, then > > open a new file for editing using `e`, I can't paste the yanked text with > > `x`. > > This has been GNU ed's behavior since the yank buffer was introduced in > version 0.2 (1994). The yank buffer is cleared before closing the old file > and opening the new. > > I agree that it may be useful to keep the yank buffer between files, but it > would be a major change because the yank buffer is implemented as a linked > list of pointers to lines in the file buffer. > > > Best regards, > Antonio. >
Thanks for that explanation, Antonio! it's unfortunate, but I better understand now.
