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From: tmoore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM (Tom.Moore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi buffer usage
Keywords: vi keymaps
Message-ID: <810@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 13:07:28 GMT
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jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:

>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.

Not true on my machine.  A "add command deletes the current line and puts
it in buffer a.  It can be simply retreived with a put comand.
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