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I still don't get buffers
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ive never had to think about clipboard buffers until i used a modal editor.
now i spend %60 of my time trying to figure out where the copied symbol went.
I don't have the name handy, but there's at least one plugin for vim that shows buffer previews in a popup. I've got it mapped to leader-sb (for "show buffer").
Telescope?
yah, helix has that in the info bar oob.
im just not thinking about that when im copying shit, i just want to copy paste like it's 1999.
You can see all registers in use with
:registers, to paste from a register say"2in insert mode use key combination<ctrl-r>2or in normal mode"2p. You can check out more in:help registers. Unnamed register or""is the system clipboard I think. To copy texts in a register you can prepend yank (/delete/cut, etc.) with that register"_(for black hole register[^black_hole]) This is for neovim. Have keybinds for them and there saved you a plugin :D[^black_hole]: Text yanked in this register is gone, i.e. it's not saved in any register.
So far I haven't been brave enough for that feature. It's either "that main place yank goes", "system clipboard", or "that place that makes it disappear" for me