Modernization

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:44:26AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Vi also has 26 hold buffers, a-z, which can be used to store
> blocks of text while writing.  Even more scarey is that one can
> load sequences of characters in a buffer, then execute them from
> the buffer.  I frequently use this when dealing with complex
> substitutions which allows me to edit the substitute until I get
> it right.

I usually put such things on the end of

:map *

myself, I had forgotten you could execute the yank buffers.

Cheers,
-- jra
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