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Comment by 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).

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Retra  10 years ago

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

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