Timeline for Why is Y a synonym for yy instead of y$?
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| Jun 20, 2016 at 20:58 | answer | added | user3224237 | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 20:14 | vote | accept | Wildcard | ||
| Jan 15, 2016 at 19:22 | answer | added | Borys Serebrov | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 16:20 | comment | added | Rich | I doubt this is the actual reason, but the person who objected to Y being remapped in vim-sensible argued that, as a C programmer, they used to-end-of-line yanking far more than entire-line yanking, and therefore the default mappings are good. YMMV: mine certainly does. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 9:51 | comment | added | joeytwiddle | If you ever find the answer they also need it here. ;) | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 9:27 | comment | added | Christian Brabandt | I am not sure why it was made like it. You would have to ask Bill Joy about it. Chances are however, this a logical bug, that just has never been fixed in the original vi and then made it into all the clones and eventually has therefore been demanded by POSIX. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 5:29 | history | asked | Wildcard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |