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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] |
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Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:12:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.)
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Apologia for bzr, (continued)
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Jose E. Marchesi, 2014/01/07
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Tom, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Davis Herring, 2014/01/10
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr],
David Kastrup <=
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Richard Stallman, 2014/01/10
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Glenn Morris, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/18