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Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting?

From Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.editors
Subject Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting?
Date 2026-02-18 13:34 +0000
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swapjim wrote:

> I'm using GVim 9.1 on Windows to learn traditional Vi by setting 'set 
> compatible' in the vimrc file.
> 
> I then select some text using 'v' and ...

Others have addressed your actual question, but I feel I should point
out that there was no 'v' command in traditional vi.

I assume "set compatible" in vim only changes vim's behaviour where
it conflicts with traditional/POSIX vi but non-conflicting extensions
are still available.

Someone else gave a link to the online POSIX vi man page; you could
use that reference as a way to identify what things that still work
in vim with "set compatible" are non-standard.

-- 
Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>

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Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? swapjim <swapjim@example.org> - 2026-02-16 23:29 +0200
  Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Rene Kita <mail@rkta.de> - 2026-02-16 21:43 +0000
    Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-02-16 23:28 +0100
      Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Rene Kita <mail@rkta.de> - 2026-02-17 07:42 +0000
      Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Anthony Howe <achowe@snert.com> - 2026-02-17 05:53 -0500
        Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-02-17 14:08 +0000
          Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-02-17 17:41 +0100
  Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-02-16 23:20 +0100
  Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2026-02-17 22:42 +0000
    Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2026-02-17 22:49 +0000
  Re: Vi: is there any way not to yank text I'm deleting? Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2026-02-18 13:34 +0000

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