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

[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!