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I still don't get buffers (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Buffers are great. Comes very handy when creating macros in vim.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you mean registers not buffers. buffers are file(s) loaded in memory while registers contain text yanked/deleted/last command/last search, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah sorry, I meant registers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you yank to places outside the regular target when you create macros?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

What do you mean by regular target? I am either yanking from the OS buffer or yanking things from 2 different buffers. Or I have 2 macros where they yank from different buffers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

What’s annoying about them is that there isn’t a simple way to clear a register which means you have to use both “r and “R in macros.