The yank command in vi.

[Phillip A. Ritter]

In article <82 at uvacs.UUCP> rwl at uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
>> > ...  I contend it would be a more useful and more consistent
>> > implementation of Y to yank to end of line.
>> 
>> Have you ever tried the string "y$" ?  After all since the vi
>> command syntax seems to be <count><command><location> that
>> should work!  And whadayaknow it does!
>  :

Why not just add the following line to your `.exrc' file?
   map Y y$

>From now on, Y will yank to end of line.

Please don't flame on any of the following points:
   (1) I know he was complaining about the lack of orthogonality in the
       defaults,
   (2) I know that .exrc might be a Berkeleyism, and
   (3) I understand the arguments about changes to the defaults [you have to
       redo them when you move, you forget its non-standard when helping
       someone else, etc]
Other flames welcome (sorta...).

Phil Ritter
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Phillip A. Ritter