vi buffer usage

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <493 at cadlab.cadlab.de> berni at cadlab.UUCP (Bernhard Kraft) writes:
>   map g OInsertedText^["gdd
>
>This was an attempt to put a text into the buffer g , when I type g.

If you want to put something into one of vi's named buffers, then you must
use the 'yank' command: Y, or yy or other variants.

When you use 'dd', you delete the line, and it goes into the "unnamed"
buffer, also called buffer 0.

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