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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Vi bashing
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Date: 26 Mar 89 10:18:20 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>But I'm in an "alternate" file (#) and I want to Yank to a named buffer so
>I can go back and put the text in place. ...  I think I tried
>Y'a"a, "aY'a, etc. and none of my attempts to extend "d" to "Y" seemed
>to work.  Am I wrong or does anyone have further comments?

Y (uppercase) is shorthand for `yy', yank-the-current-line.  You
need to use

	"ay'a

to yank from here to the line marked by mark-a into buffer-a.  If
you want a character-oriented yank (from here to mark-a) use "ay`a.
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