Re: Copy/Paste -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Copy/Paste
From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:28:38 -0500
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Just be glad you don't know about the OS2 variants - things like Shift-Ctrl-Insert for paste, Ctrl-Insert for copy, Shift-Del for cut. These are the defaults in PC5250 for these operations.

I'd rather - and always do - have a new keyboard map.

On 8/6/2011 1:57 PM, Douglas Handy wrote:

Jerry,

Out of curiosity does anyone know who's bright idea it was to make C and V

(along with Ctrl) the Copy and Paste keys? Okay, the C I understand, but
why V?

FWIW, what I was originally told was the V, aside from proximity to C and X,
was supposed to be reminiscent of the proof-readers markup for inserting
text, which is an upside down v (or more correctly, the caret symbol).
Thankfully they did not use Ctrl+caret...

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