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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] From: Davis Herring Subject: Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:10:12 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110717 Lanikai/3.1.11 
>> For example, yank is not a superior term to paste, so paste could be
>> used instead. One unnecessary difference less.
> 
> You mean, unnecessary similarity.  This has a C-y keyboard binding, and
> vi uses y and Y bindings for yanking as well.

Except that "yank" means "copy" in vi, not "paste".  (This is the source
of most confusion I see about the word.)

Davis

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