Mike Raiford escreveu:
> Invisible wrote:
>>
>> Actually, it appears that kill = cut and yank = paste. (WTF?)
>>
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty screwy terminology. Why not use terminology like 
> delete, copy and insert?

Because it's geeky software in the same humorous way of nerdy MIT 
tradition, where puns acronyms abound.  Why have boring enterprise-ready 
names?

> Interestingly, Visual Studio has Emacs emulation. I don't know how far 
> it goes, though. But, I suppose if you're used to doing things the Emacs 
> way it could be very useful.

Yes, a very good thing when you're trying to bring C++ die-hards over to 
your product.  I used it a bit and realized they provided even cyclic 
buffers.  Funny thing is that they don't seem to have that functionality 
available by default.

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