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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>snarf &amp; barf</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="snarf.html" title="snarf"/><link rel="next" href="snarf-down.html" title="snarf down"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">snarf &amp; barf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="snarf.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="snarf-down.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="snarf-ampersand-barf"/><dt xmlns="" id="snarf-ampersand-barf"><b>snarf &amp; barf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/snarf´n·barf`/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Under a <a href="../W/WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>, 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 &#8216;eat now, regret it
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