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Looking at the TOC, its missing cut/copy and paste, which is pretty important for any text editor

It's true, but since vim is a bit old, copy/pasting can be a bit awkward due to having an internal clipboard with the buffer and not using the system's clipboard.

I wouldn't put that in a beginner tutorial (at least the system clipboard copying/pasting).

Vim has system clipboard support with the `+` and `*` registers.

Or even better, setting "set clipboard=unnamed" in your vimrc, which just makes it to so vim's clipboad is the system clipboard.

I never knew about this trick, which is pretty significant if you use tmux regularly. This just made my day!

Right. But what I was saying is that, I wouldn't throw that into a beginner's tutorial right away.

they are sprinkled around

cut: x,d,c,s

copy: y

paste: p

different variations for different use cases, can be combined with movement commands, can be repeated, etc

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