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book: Document default and special registers

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@ -37,19 +37,35 @@ If a register is selected before invoking a change or delete command, the select
- `"hc` - Store the selection in register `h` and then change it (delete and enter insert mode).
- `"md` - Store the selection in register `m` and delete it.
### Special registers
### Default registers
Commands that use registers, like yank (`y`), use a default register if none is specified.
These registers are used as defaults:
| Register character | Contains |
| --- | --- |
| `/` | Last search |
| `:` | Last executed command |
| `"` | Last yanked text |
| `_` | Black hole |
| `@` | Last recorded macro |
The system clipboard is not directly supported by a special register. Instead, special commands and keybindings are provided. Refer to the
[key map](keymap.md#space-mode) for more details.
### Special registers
The black hole register is a no-op register, meaning that no data will be read or written to it.
Some registers have special behavior when read from and written to.
| Register character | When read | When written |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `_` | No values are returned | All values are discarded |
| `#` | Selection indices (first selection is `1`, second is `2`, etc.) | This register is not writable |
| `.` | Contents of the current selections | This register is not writable |
| `%` | Name of the current file | This register is not writable |
| `*` | Reads from the system clipboard | Joins and yanks to the system clipboard |
| `+` | Reads from the primary clipboard | Joins and yanks to the primary clipboard |
When yanking multiple selections to the clipboard registers, the selections
are joined with newlines. Pasting from these registers will paste multiple
selections if the clipboard was last yanked to by the Helix session. Otherwise
the clipboard contents are pasted as one selection.
## Surround