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> Or, in Vim and Emacs, just delete!

Off topic, but that’s actually my biggest pet peeve vim. You copy text one place to overwrite some other text, you delete the existing text and they you go to paste and… the buffer has been overwritten. It makes so much more sense to require users to hit the obvious, composable ‘yd’ in the cases they want to copy than an arcane incantation in the cases they want to overwrite text.

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Spending enough time drinking the kool aid means I know at least 3 ways to use registers to avoid that, and practically end up using none of them
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