hello everypony welcome to my biannual 196 post
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you know i made this meme without even considering that vim calls it “yank” so like who am i to judge
IIRC vim calls it “yank” to match the y keybind
In case you’re as confused as I am: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snarf
Thanks! It seems to be antiquated tech jargon as well. Plan 9 was an operating system directed in part by Rob Pike (the author of this email) in which the Copy action was called “Snarf”.
It’s actually not a copy action, it’s snarf.
