Question

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?

Answer 1

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%5F13.html#SEC59