From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Y. E." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs terminology Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:20:32 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27817"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Luca Ferrari Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 02:43:36 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mOUdi-0006sl-FY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2021 02:43:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOUdg-0000Ph-Km for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOOfC-0003EZ-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from out0.migadu.com ([2001:41d0:2:267::]:52322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOOf9-0004H0-J9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:20:42 -0400 X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ego.team; s=key1; t=1631211634; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to; bh=jktat7Vy9a9Lzmgf46HfQYhKoWNqKLboC9tJ0L1foGE=; b=i5X82QPKqiuTu46jyeT9Dcjci7NFUQGJtMMFqGel6E9Ec8nYopC+/22g5R6XsmpzPW8icC psAi8J3s/hnVS64s2UWNfsb4wUWRb8NraR65rPuiRM2X9SDKShuxV7YenTVI86/wg17e0/ +/4bVA1tMgqITq2tdj74GGdC/Ye7+IQ= In-Reply-To: (message from Luca Ferrari on Wed, 8 Sep 2021 09:27:27 +0200) X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: yuga@ego.team Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:41d0:2:267::; envelope-from=yet@ego.team; helo=out0.migadu.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:42:20 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132977 Archived-At: Hi Luca, > this could sound like trolling To me personally this sounds as a fine question. > I'm really curious to understand > (if possibile) how did Emacs come up with terms like "kill" and > "yank". > Is there any resource that explains it? The only source I found investigating this question is this SE thread: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17056/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-yank