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Comment by klibertp

10 years ago

Ok, I stand corrected. And it seems rather logical, too.

So where do "kill" and "yank" names come from?

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JadeNB  10 years 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-ca... .

  • microtherion  10 years 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  10 years ago

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