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Re:Intermediate Vim by n8henrie on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:39AM (#19796867)
I remember something about a capital register appending instead of overwriting -- is that only for saving (with no influence in execution)?
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Re:Intermediate Vim by majewsky on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:19PM (#19798606)
Yes, that's only for writing. For example, to collect all lines matching a pattern into a register with

  :g/pattern/y A
you need to use an uppercase register ("A" in this case) because it executes `y` once per match. With `y a` instead of `y A`, you would end up having only the last match in the register.
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