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| From | Anthony Howe <achowe@snert.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.editors |
| Subject | Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? |
| Date | 2026-02-17 05:53 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10n1ham$1mgl9$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <10n027u$187f4$1@dont-email.me> <10n031b$18euo$1@dont-email.me> <10n05li$3tuuv$2@dont-email.me> |
On 2026-02-16 17:28, Janis Papanagnou wrote: >> Use "_dd and similar to not put the deleted text in a register. >> See :h "_ > > Do you know whether that register was existing in classical Vi ? > (I don't think so but, frankly, I don't recall and I'm curious.) The "a .. "z and "1 .. "9 buffers are part of historical `ex` and `vi`, see SUS https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/ buffer definition. I used to work on Mortice Kern Systems maintaining their DOS `vi` while we were balloting POSIX.2. The named buffers were part of the historical `vi` and the MKS independent clone. As for the OP, deleting / changing always included a yank into the numeric buffers. That is historical behaviour and documented in SUS. -- Anthony C Howe achowe@snert.com BarricadeMX & Milters http://nanozen.snert.com/ https://github.com/SirWumpus
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