yank
<jargon>
(From the colloquial meaning "to pull suddenly") To insert a copy of some saved text at the current position in a document being edited.
The term is used in the Unix text editors GNU Emacs and vi but "paste" is more common elsewhere. [Used elsewhere?]Last updated: 1998-07-01
Nearby terms:
Yamaha ♦ YAML ♦ YAML Ain't Markup Language ♦ yank ♦ YAPS ♦ YASOS ♦ YAUN
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