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>>In Emacs, what you nowadays call "cutting and pasting" is instead called "killing and yanking". It was called that way even before "cut" and "paste" got popul
by Avshalom 10y ago
>>In Emacs, what you nowadays call "cutting and pasting" is instead called "killing and yanking". It was called that way even before "cut" and "paste" got popularized, I think
Cut and paste refer to literal scissors/knives and glue/paste it predates the Gutenberg press.
- klibertp 10y agoOk, I stand corrected. And it seems rather logical, too. So where do "kill" and "yank" names come from?
- JadeNB 10y ago> So where do "kill" and "yank" names come from? This is discussed a bit on ESE, though the explanation seems vi-centric: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/40657/how-yank-came-about-in-vi-and-emacs http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/40657/how-yank-ca... .
- microtherion 10y agoOne of the crazy aspects of Unix text editors is that "yank" means nearly the opposite in vi (where it stands for copying) as it means in emacs (where it stands for pasting).
- Retra 10y agoFirst time I heard that yank means "yanking from the buffer" I figured I'd had a mini stroke.
- MengerSponge 10y agoEmacs is based on arcane incantations and Elder horrors. It predates creation and sanity. :p