POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Emacs : Re: Emacs Server Time
29 Sep 2024 20:18:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Emacs  
From: Darren New
Date: 17 Apr 2009 18:17:17
Message: <49e8ffed$1@news.povray.org>
Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 	As for kill and yank, do realize that Emacs is old. I'm not sure cut
> and paste was common editor parlance in those days.

Of course it was. "Cut and paste" is the term left over from before 
computers, remember? :-) It's how you composed a newspaper before digital 
ever existed.

I suspect it's more because there were way too many mnemonic keys needed.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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