Reasons to change: there is not a very strong reason to fight for a mere
terminology as if this terminology would do something for us. It doesn't do
anything positive. As a text editor with a long history it has to change, it
will probably survive existent hardware and operating systems, but it can`t
forget what hardware and the standards that happens to occur at a preset
time. I think this is important for Emacs as a eternal uberhardware being.


2010/7/10 Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com>

> Alfred M. Szmidt <ams <at> gnu.org> writes:
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> > I doubt that words like yank, kill, point, etc hinder new users from
> > using emacs.  The argument seems extremly weak.
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> As Lennart said before the little things add up. The more unfamiliar
> things the new user encounters the more time and effort he needs to
> invest to try emacs and it can be a turn off.
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> There is no reason to use the word yank for an operation which practically
> every other system calls paste. It's one of those totally unnecessary
> roadblocks for newbies in emacs.
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