Since we're talking about pedantry and how it relates to users learning and using vim, let's talk about clipboards. Your clipboard is the '+' register. Cutting

Since we're talking about pedantry and how it relates to users learning and using vim, let's talk about clipboards. Your clipboard is the '+' register. Cutting or yanking text does not put it into the '+' register, but rather a specified default local register (is it normally 0? Somebody feel free to correct me here). As a consequence, if you delete or yank some text, it doesn't go to the clipboard. If you really want it to go to your clipboard, specify '+' as the default register or call di"+p in place of dip. This naturally confuses beginners because the concept of registers is completely foreign to other editors. Emacs can provide similar functionality, but by that point Vim is no longer in "weird" mode compared to what you know. We do a lot of simplification when talking about Vim, but small points like this can be immensely confusing for people who just want something to behave the way they're used to.