On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:00 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Kill/yank comes to mind as obvious example. The copy/cut/paste
> > terminology is pretty much standard, so the various kill/yank
> > operations (kill-region, copy-region-as-kill, etc.) should
> > be mapped to these terms.
>
> The problem I see with that is that the terms are mnemonics for the
> keybindings: the kill bindings contain "k", the yank bindings "y".
>
> And (as you probably remember) the problem with that as I see it is the
key bindings. Users expect CUA. ;-)