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

[David Kastrup]

Davis Herring <address@hidden> writes:

>>> 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".

Uh yeah, forgot about that...

> (This is the source of most confusion I see about the word.)

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David Kastrup