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?]
(1998-07-01)
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