Proper use of the clipboard

José A. Romero L. escherdragon at gmail.com
Mon Dec 23 15:25:43 CET 2013


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg at posteo.de
> wrote:
(...)
>
> A special case is evil-delete-char (bound to x in normal mode).  If I
> use that command, a single character is copied to the clipboard.  My
> guess is that this is hardly ever desired: why would I type C-v for
> pasting a single character in another application when I could simply
> type that character directly?  Thus it would perhaps be better to

(...)

You forget one of the oldest and most used (at least by me) idioms in
Vim: xp for transposing the character under the cursor with the one
that follows ;-)

Cheers,
-- 
José A. Romero L.
escherdragon at gmail.com
"We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
(Quarry worker's creed)
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