From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davis Herring Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:10:12 -0700 Organization: XCP-1 Message-ID: <52D03784.7060006@lanl.gov> References: <877gact76s.fsf@gnu.org> <34c8c13b-c5c6-4e5a-9248-b09d5d1936da@default> <87eh4hkq6c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8761ptkksh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389377493 10528 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2014 18:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 10 19:11:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gYS-000197-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:11:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gYR-0007tA-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gXJ-0006Sr-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:10:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gXB-0008Au-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:10:25 -0500 Original-Received: from proofpoint5.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.53]:54110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gXA-0008A2-UA; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by mailgate5.lanl.gov (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0AIADJR010639; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:10:13 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916CB135852B; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:10:13 -0700 (MST) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from [128.165.123.145] (xray-r10.lanl.gov [128.165.123.145]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345AF135851F; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:10:12 -0700 (MST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110717 Lanikai/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <8761ptkksh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.11.87, 1.0.14, 0.0.0000 definitions=2014-01-10_07:2014-01-10, 2014-01-10, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 204.121.3.53 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168028 Archived-At: >> 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". (This is the source of most confusion I see about the word.) Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.