The yank command in vi.
Ed Gould
ed at mtxinu.UUCP
Tue Jan 7 06:46:05 AEST 1986
In article <355 at weitek.UUCP> mmm at 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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