Comment by amelius
13 hours ago
What confuses me is that Ctrl+Y "yank" means the opposite of what it means in Vim. Certainly does not help with keeping my sanity.
13 hours ago
What confuses me is that Ctrl+Y "yank" means the opposite of what it means in Vim. Certainly does not help with keeping my sanity.
It all depends on your perspective.
Are you yanking into your kill ring or yanking out of your kill ring? I had trouble with yanking and killing until I realized the complement to yanking, killing, only makes sense in the into-the-kill-ring" direction, so yanking must be out of the kill ring.
When I use vim, which I don't think has a kill ring but registers, I think I am yanking into a register and then pasting from a register later.
So, just ask yourself this: "are you using a kill ring or register to store your text?" and the answer becomes clear.
That is because the terminology (and the keybindings) come from the Emacs tradition, not vim. Most shells come with “vim mode” as well, but at least in my experience, the dual mode editing paradigm of does not feel like a good fit for the shell.