Re: Copy/Paste

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've never had a problem with this, even though I like to figure out why 
things were done that way.

C for copy makes sense
X for cut makes sense

So what else around those 2 makes sense for paste? Not Z - I suppose V 
was handy.

But this is all idle speculation - I have a feeling the decision is 
buried somewhere in development history.

Vern

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...