From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 2026-02-16 22:29, swapjim wrote:   
   > [...]   
   >   
   > I then select some text using 'v' and delete it using x. However, this   
   > also copies the text (yanks it). Same thing happens when I try to delete   
   > a few lines with 10dd or 10dw.   
   >   
   > Is this normal behavior?   
      
   This is Vi standard behavior.   
      
   > If yes, is there a way to not to yank the text I'm deleting?   
      
   There's the elsethread mentioned "black hole register" (but I'm not   
   sure that was existing in classical Vi that you wrote are intending   
   to learn).   
      
   > [...]   
      
   I suppose you want the text not to enter the yank-buffer because you   
   want to recover (paste) a previously yanked (or deleted) text? - For   
   that you have also other means to keep and access former stored text.   
      
   You can store deleted or yanked text in a named register (a-z) with   
   the double quotes indicator; instead of, say,   
      
      dw   you could   "a dw   (the space is just for readability here!)   
      yy   you could   "b yy   etc. to enter text contents into a and b   
      
   Then you'd paste the stored data for example with  "a p  or  "b P   
   etc.  You can also *accumulate* deleted or yanked text in a register   
   if you use a capital alpha character, as in  "A dw  or  "B yy  etc.   
      
   For deleted text there's also the implicit numbered registers "1 "2   
   "3 etc. where you can access the last, the one before the last, etc.   
   deleted text and paste it as  "2 p  or  "3 P  (for example).   
      
   Janis   
      
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