Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!rutgers!att!icus!dasys1!jpr From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi buffer usage Keywords: vi keymaps Message-ID: <10436@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 2 Aug 89 19:13:25 GMT References: <1061@gtx.com> <493@cadlab.cadlab.de> <10322@dasys1.UUCP> <810@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM> Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) Distribution: comp.unix.questions Organization: TANGENT Lines: 17 In article <810@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM> tmoore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM (Tom.Moore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM) writes: >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. mea culpa I was wrong. -- Jean-Pierre Radley jpr@jpradley.uucp New York, NY 72160.1341@compuserve.com