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[gothwalk]

Me: You need to find that, but it varies? OK, see that bit, that's always beside it and always the same. So just yank that and grep for it.

Co-worker: Huh?

Memo to self - do not use unix terms when talking to windows people. All it gets is funny looks.

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[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

I am now terrified. I'm a windows person, and I can't program anything except html. And I understood that. I'm worried.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Your transformation is nearly complete. Give in to the geek side!

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Or being chewed out for being confusing. :p I got that recently at school - from a teacher, who had no clue what I was talking about.

[melintur.livejournal.com]

grep, yeah.

"yank?" that's just silly. The world knows it as copy. I love vi to death, but that whole 'yank' crap is just plain dumb. I'd give you a funny look and I know what you are talking about.

sudo su -

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

What he sed.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

awk off.

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

Oh, growfs up.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I'm not letting you have the last word.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that this is more or less the tail end of this debate.

[melintur.livejournal.com]

fsck off

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, man.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I'd been using VI for over a year when I took my first Unix class. You should have seen the looks on the Windows people (i.e. everyone except me) when he started talking about yank. ;)

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

And now, I apparently can't type. How'd vi end up caps? *blink**blink* No posting before coffee!

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Dunno what kinda unix dialect you learned, mistah, but ovah heah, we's allus said yank.

Seriously - I dunno if TCD's Maths Dept was somewhat isolated or what, but my first exposure to computers was unix, and "yank" is what I was taught. "Copy" confused me for a while, until I realised they were the same thing.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I learned vi first in freshman year to compose HTML. Then I found emacs. And I've had torrid relationships with both editors in the past several years.

Emacs just made it easy to learn the kill ring and the yank comand. vi was good for bare bones environments.

[melintur.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, unicies say "yank," but since the rest of the world (and GUIs in unices) say "copy" and have said "copy" and "copy" is really what you are doing (copying a value to another space), I say copy.

Yank is silly word (and while I like silly words), it really has no imediate meaning to non-geek types (similarly for Poke and Peek and other jargon).

I used "copy" and "paste" on my C-64 20 years ago fer cryin' out loud!