Conversation

[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.

Comments

[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!