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
