The named buffer permits access to its contents at anytime during editing session. VI's 26 named buffers remain only for the life of the current editing session. If you do not use the material placed in a named buffer during the same session it is filled, the material is lost. To use a named buffer with the yank and delete commands, you must first locate the cursor in the text at the point where the material to be placed in the buffer is situated. 7dd deleting 7 lines Anytime during a session you wish to append more information into a named buffer, it is done by recalling the buffer with a capital letter for a name.
Different users select named buffers in different ways.
Whatever method you devise for buffer selection, you must remember its name. The editor provides no easy way to find out which buffer has which text segment. Please ask us . Copyright 2001 Purdue University. All rights reserved.