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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: The yank command in vi.
Message-ID: <500@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 15:46:05 EST
Article-I.D.: mtxinu.500
Posted: Mon Jan  6 15:46:05 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jan-86 07:36:23 EST
References: <355@weitek.UUCP>
Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA
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Keywords: vi, Y

In article <355@weitek.UUCP> mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) writes:
>In vi, I want Y to do the same thing as Dp.  Dp yanks to end of line.  I use
>Dp a lot.  Instead, Y yanks the whole line.  I use yy for that.  So Y is
>useless to me.

Try y$ to yank to the end of a line.

>I contend it would be a more useful and more consistent
>implementation of Y to yank to end of line.

That's a religious question, given how inconsistent vi already is.
I'd prefer D to delete the whole line; I use Y all the time.

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