From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:12:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87iotriu3f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <877gact76s.fsf@gnu.org> <34c8c13b-c5c6-4e5a-9248-b09d5d1936da@default> <87eh4hkq6c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8761ptkksh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <52D03784.7060006@lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389377596 11886 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2014 18:13:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Davis Herring Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 10 19:13:24 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 1W1gaB-0003xQ-Ov for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:13:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gaB-0000u4-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1ga3-0000oD-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:13:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gZy-0000dM-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gZy-0000dI-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:13:10 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52016 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1gZx-0001xp-SL; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:13:10 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EE2B2E0821; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:12:52 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <52D03784.7060006@lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:10:12 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168029 Archived-At: Davis Herring 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