Meanings
nouncopy-pasto (plural copy-pastos)
plural copy-pastos · alternative copypasto · alternative copy/pasto
- slangcomputingAn error caused by incorrect copy-pasting, often resulting in unintended text (or other content) being inserted.
Sorry, copy-pasto. This line was moved few lines up to here by my evil mouse. :-(
2010 May 27, Jung-uk Kim, “Re: Timezone behavior of Java”, in mailing.freebsd.java (Usenet)1 more example
Haven't tested your latest diff, but I think you have a copy-pasto here (", cnt").
2014 January 6, Kent R. Spillner, “Re: new login style: yubikey-and-pwd”, in fa.openbsd.tech (Usenet)
Origin
From copy-paste + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).
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