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Re:Git git git git git by kqr on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:58AM (#15345033)
Well, cutting is called killing in Emacs...
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Re:Git git git git git by pvorb on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:26AM (#15345351)
So why is emodendroket referring to ctrl-w then?
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Re:Git git git git git by emodendroket on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:54AM (#15347794)
In other words ctrl-w is "kill," which is what most people would think of as "cut," and ctrl-y is "yank," which is what most people would think of as "paste."
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Re:Git git git git git by jasonm23 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:10AM (#15347931)
And Vimmers would think of yank as copy or kill save
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Re:Git git git git git by kqr on Sunday October 01, 2017 @04:05AM (#15376877)
That's funny. Never thought about that. I guess Emacs people think of it as yanking from the clipboard to the document, and Vim people think of it as yanking from the document into the clipboard.
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