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: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:21:27 +0300 Message-ID: References: <838s05j63t.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5701"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Luca Ferrari To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 13:22:05 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 1mOebd-0001GM-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:22:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44912 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOeba-0000dJ-S7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOebA-0000dB-SF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from out0.migadu.com ([94.23.1.103]:17013) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOeb7-0005dS-2y; Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:21:36 -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=1631272889; 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=EX2C9y5XK6TQxqwHm6IbspvPS4gZF1MFrym+uXjsgfU=; b=n0bUgFyzkP3EK2rtBfl0+C6xKhSpD0fqE9x0/mQDIV0LvAWThy4wH4/i6yw8iN4zmiwM/F nK+UnN89qyfC4m5oD+Vi/W6Pntj1GlHczMR+KfDc39Z4AH3WQU2PYTZU7+fmzlbWv/p7TV 1JAHdLVcivhAQMCH7XPJojX8XvLR+dI= In-Reply-To: <838s05j63t.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:29:42 +0300) X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: yuga@ego.team Received-SPF: pass client-ip=94.23.1.103; 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, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:132989 Archived-At: > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17056/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-yank > > I don't know how it came to be used, but you can find more info here: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/209660/why-is-the-vi-editors-copy-command-called-yank > > It says this comes from TECO, and was already in use in the early > 1960s. And Emacs is not the only editor using this terminology: vi > does as well, its command to yank a line is yy or Y. "Paste" came > later, in 1970s. Yes, emacs.SE question also links to the unix.SE in the first comment. Anyway, the visibility of that answer-in-the-comment at unix.SE was very questionable, so I added a more Emacs-oriented _community wiki_ answer to emacs.SE (based on the already mentioned comment): https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/68454/28451 Fixes and improvement are, by definition, welcome from everyone.