The yank command in vi.

[Ed Gould]

In article <355 at weitek.UUCP> mmm at weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) writes:
>In vi, I want Y to do the same thing as Dp.  Dp yanks to end of line.  I use
>Dp a lot.  Instead, Y yanks the whole line.  I use yy for that.  So Y is
>useless to me.

Try y$ to yank to the end of a line.

>I contend it would be a more useful and more consistent
>implementation of Y to yank to end of line.

That's a religious question, given how inconsistent vi already is.
I'd prefer D to delete the whole line; I use Y all the time.

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