In XCode there's a text key binding ^Y to the "yank" command.
What does "yank" mean? I thought it was to "yank back deleted text" but so far it only "yanks back" text I cut, which means its synonymous with "paste" on windows?
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Yes, yanking and pasting are different terms for the same thing. I first learned about it through pico, and it seems that emacs uses the term as well:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/gnu-info/emacs_13.html#SEC59
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Yank inserts the most recent block of text from the kill buffer, which is the CLI equivalent of a clipboard.
Some ways the kill ring is different from the clipboard on OS X:
- For example ⌃K, ⌘⌫ and ⌧ add the deleted text to the kill ring
- Copied text is not added to the kill ring
- It can only contain plain text
- Yank acts like paste and match style in rich text views
- Pressing ⌃K multiple times in a row appends all deleted ranges into a single block
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