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jolmg on Feb 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Larry Tesler Has Died

You're right, I missed that. Vi's predecessor ex, which also had these operations, is from '76, so it also couldn't be it. However, Emacs's TECO, which also had yank, is from '62/'63, so that might've been one.

jjtheblunt on Feb 19, 2020 [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)

jolmg on Feb 20, 2020 | [–]

Ed doesn't seem to have those operations. GNU ed's documentation includes yank, but it's not described in POSIX.

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