Russell Bateman wrote:
[...]
There are two ways to copy content to a buffer. y is used to yank a
copy of it (essentially leaving the text intact--what Sibin refers to
as replacing the text with itself) and d is used to delete that text
keeping a copy of it in the buffer. (I'm sorry, when I say buffer
here, I'm referring not the larger buffer between Vim and the file,
but to a clipboard. I do not myself know the correct terminology that
has grown up in the Vim community because I've always been more
interested in consumingvi/Vim as a productivity tool than in its
development.) And, yes, p for paste after, P for paste before cursor.
[...]
In Vim terminology, "a buffer" contains a whole file loaded in memory for
editing, "a register" is what you can yank or delete into, or put from. "The
clipboard" is the system clipboard, accessible in Vim as register + , and on
non-X systems also as register * .
See ":help registers"
Best regards,
Tony.
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mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as
"Garfield Gets Spayed", and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you
how to be excellent: "In Search of Excellence", "Finding Excellence",
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-- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"
