I'm interested in learning how the term yank got its name. I'm also interested in why Vi/Vim "yank" differs from Emacs "yank".
See also: same question on Unix & Linux; dual question about Emacs
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Sign up to join this communityI'm interested in learning how the term yank got its name. I'm also interested in why Vi/Vim "yank" differs from Emacs "yank".
See also: same question on Unix & Linux; dual question about Emacs
The text is dragged/moved/pulled/yanked into to clipboard. It's just a synonymous found to be easy to remember the y key, since all other keys are used.
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is described as "yank operator, for copies and moves". As mentioned in romainl's link, the reason that yank was chosen is probably because they
key was free. – Martin Tournoij Oct 1 '15 at 21:04w
... – VanLaser Oct 2 '15 at 17:33