snarf & barf
/snarf'n-barf`/ Under a WIMP environment, the act of grabbing a region of text
and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same
one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this was a mainstream
expression for an "eat now, regret it later" cheap restaurant expedition.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-04)
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