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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: vi buffer usage
Keywords: vi keymaps
Message-ID: <10322@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 89 05:16:59 GMT
References: <1061@gtx.com> <493@cadlab.cadlab.de>
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In article <493@cadlab.cadlab.de> berni@cadlab.UUCP (Bernhard Kraft) writes:
>   map g OInsertedText^["gdd
>
>This was an attempt to put a text into the buffer g , when I type g.

If you want to put something into one of vi's named buffers, then you must
use the 'yank' command: Y, or yy or other variants.

When you use 'dd', you delete the line, and it goes into the "unnamed"
buffer, also called buffer 0.

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Jean-Pierre Radley		CIS: 72160,1341		jpr@jpradley.UUCP