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I find the difficulty is remembering this when I need it. I've read about capital registers several times, but when I am editing, and I need to copy several distinct lines, I do a "ayy "byy "cyy and then "ap "bp "cp instead of a "ayy "Ayy "Ayy -> "ap because I never remember to use capital registers. I'd love a VIM plugin that tells me that there is an easier way to what I just did by pattern matching my input.



I wonder what the complexity of a plugin would be that watches you use vim and tells if you're doing an anti-pattern?

My only gripe with vim is that the discoverability of features is god awful because :help is so overwhelming.


Yeah me too. I guess it would need to match all the wrong ways against a right way. It is probably easy for something like "jjjjj", but already someone doing BBBBi instead of I would be difficult to match: because one would also need to see where he ended up with BBBB: beginning of line or somewhere in the middle




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