vi and emacs both have named registers that you can use to store and recall text. I don't know how to use vi but I know they're there.

• emacs does really beautiful rectangle cuts and pastes.
• emacs does cuts, copies and appends to regisers.
• emacs does cuts copies and appends to other buffers.
• emacs lets you treat a register as a variable that you can increment and decremt and use it's value in keyboard macros.
• emacs lets you write extra functions in lisp (if you want to)
• emacs lets you record keyboard macros. either one time quick hacks or you can name them and bind them to a key. just for this session or make them permenant.

emacs does lots of other wonderful things that I can't/haven't figured out how to do in vi. emacs figures out the line ending and uses it transparently, if it gets it wrong you can override it.

Nuance

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