clearing out an appended-to register

So I just discovered the wonders of being able to append to named registers - how though, do I then clear them out once I'm done with their contents? thanks! -lev

Re: clearing out an appended-to register

Lev Lvovsky wrote: So I just discovered the wonders of being able to append to named registers - how though, do I then clear them out once I'm done with their contents? Let's assume you're wishing to clear register A: :let @a= will empty it out. Regards, Chip Campbell

Re: clearing out an appended-to register

So I just discovered the wonders of being able to append to named registers - how though, do I then clear them out once I'm done with their contents? You can just overwrite to their lower-case equiv. Thus, if you ayy to yank into register a and then move somewhere else and

Re: clearing out an appended-to register

On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Tim Chase wrote: It's helpful to understand that the uppercase and lowercase registers are exactly the same place of storage. Uppercase just instructs Vim to append rather than overwrite any preexisting contents. :help :let-register :help