POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Emacs : Re: Emacs Server Time
29 Sep 2024 06:25:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Emacs  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 15 Apr 2009 12:39:27
Message: <49e60dbf$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> 
> I think that we have had "cut and paste" since at least the 1940's as it was a
> printing term used in Phototypesetting. You would literally cut the text off a
> page then paste it onto another page. I remember using hot wax for the pasting
> in the 70's.

Sooo... what was the justification for Yank and Kill? Just confusing 
terms to keep the neophytes away, then?


-- 
~Mike


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