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When a line is deleted, it is first copied to a register—since no register is specified, the default (unnamed) register is used. If many thousands of lines are deleted, the copy process can take a significant time. To avoid that waste of time, the blackhole register (_) can be specified because any copy or cut into the blackhole register perform…
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