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 Ayy to yank-append into register a, you can just overwrite the contents by moving elsewhere and using ayy as usual. If you absolutely *must* clear out the register, you can easily use :let @a='' 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 quote_alpha :help quote -tim
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 quote_alpha :help quote Ah, that helps a lot, I figured they'd be different. thanks! -lev
