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Ok, 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 ago
    One 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 ago
      First time I heard that yank means "yanking from the buffer" I figured I'd had a mini stroke.