A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux® 8

Yank, Put, and Delete Commands

The vim editor has a General-Purpose buffer and 26 Named buffers that can hold text during an editing session. These buffers are useful if you want to move or copy a portion of text to another location in the Work buffer. A combination of the Delete and Put commands removes text from one location in the Work buffer and places it in another. The Yank and Put commands copy text to another location in the Work buffer, without changing the original text.

The General-Purpose Buffer

The vim editor stores the text that you most recently changed, deleted, or yanked in the General-Purpose buffer. The Undo command retrieves text from the General-Purpose buffer when it restores text.

Copying Text to the Buffer

The Yank command ...