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JadeNB on July 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What ever happened to Wordstar?

> 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 on July 19, 2016 [–]

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 on July 19, 2016 | [–]

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

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