Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]

[Davis Herring]

>> 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

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