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I've never liked the term yank, to me it means take something out of there. But it's really "copy this into a buffer," for use later. That said, I had my annoy
by a3n 10y ago
I've never liked the term yank, to me it means take something out of there. But it's really "copy this into a buffer," for use later.
That said, I had my annoying fifteen seconds when I first learned it, then just used it as intended. Honestly, my fingertips do the how-to thinking these days, and my brain does the what-I-want thinking.
- dmix 10y agoI see yank as copy but with a history, like a copy plus undo/redo state. Because that's how the functionality was introduced to me with Vim. I can cycle through previous 'yank' buffers, yet on my OS I'm limited to a single 'copy/cut' buffer so I remembered them as distinct terms.