Surprisingly, we have 5 copy-paste questions, and only 3 yank questions (no kill though).
We should consolidate them. Which version do we prefer?
copy-paste or kill-yank? copy-yank? copy-kill-yank? kill-ring?
Is search engine optimization a concern here?
I'd choose copy-paste for the whole process of copying/cutting and pasting text around, because that's one everybody (both beginners and advanced users) would understand. Tags shouldn't trigger questions.
Another reason is that it could happen that kill and yank are not the only way, or not the more natural, to achieve the wanted action (for example rectangle regions, CUA functions...).
kill and yank can still be used when the question specifically refers to the behavior of the corresponding function.
You didn't ask it, but I don't think we'd need a cut-paste either, this could be synonymized to copy-paste. After all, "copy" = "cut and paste twice", isn't that how everybody does that? ;)
kill(-line) and then yank because I still need it.
– Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Oct 8 '14 at 12:48
Use copy-paste, which is the common layman term, as the main tag. While Emacs reserves paste to mean pasting from some operating system clipboard outside Emacs, copy-paste is the most discoverable tag for most users. The menu nowadays calls the commands Cut, Copy and Paste.
Make kill and yank synonyms. While these are the correct Emacs terms, they aren't known outside Emacs (and may even have different meanings).
Some questions may warrant more specialized tags, such as kill-ring for questions about manipulating the kill ring (e.g. select from menu). Interacting with the OS copy-paste functionality is one such subtopic; there are currently two (1 2) questions about this, tagged clipboard. I'm not sure if that's the right name, as the difference between copy-paste and clipboard isn't really apparent.
kill-ring.
– Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Oct 8 '14 at 21:16
I would say copy-kill-yank, because it is this how Emacs calls them.
