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 Registers are named lists of text -instead of simply text- in order to interact
 well with multiselection. They are used for various purposes, like storing
-the last yanked text, or the captured groups associated with the selections.
+yanked text, the locations of selections in a buffer, or groups captured by a
+regular expression.
 
 == Interacting