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Answer by Jim Dennis on Stack Overflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way to yank text into the anonymous copy buffer (or "register" as it's called in vi).

The "Zen" of vi is that you're speaking a language. The initial y is a verb. The statement yy is a simple statement which is, essentially, an abbreviation for 0 y$:

0 go to the beginning of this line. y yank from here (up to where?)

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	# ssh-multi
	# D.Kovalov
	# Based on http://linuxpixies.blogspot.jp/2011/06/tmux-copy-mode-and-how-to-control.html

	# a script to ssh multiple servers over multiple tmux panes


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	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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	# Description: This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases
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	# Sections:
	# 1. Environment Configuration
	# 2. Make Terminal Better (remapping defaults and adding functionality)
	# 3. File and Folder Management
	# 4. Searching
	# 5. Process Management

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	; Adds 'Open in Atom' to context menu (when you right click) in Windows Explorer.
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	; https://github.com/Zren/atom-windows-context-menu/issues/1.
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	; Save this file to disk with a .reg extension. Replace C:\\Atom\\atom.exe with
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	#!/bin/bash
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	# Name: Bash CheatSheet for Mac OSX
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	# A little overlook of the Bash basics
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	# Usage:
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	# Author: J. Le Coupanec
	# Date: 2014/11/04