May 15, 2003

snarf & barf

/snarf´n·barf`/ n.

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:29 AM

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