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Article #146329Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
From: Andrew Cadley
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
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Martin Ibert wrote in message <36a25cf6...@news.home.ibert.com>... :On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 03:28:32 -0700, "Scott" <no...@nospam.com> wrote: : :>The most obvious reason is that Ctrl Z, X, C, V are most convenient for some :>of the most common operations: Undo, Cut, Copy and Paste. Simply because :>they are close to the control key on most keyboards. : :But the Z key is up between the T and U keys, way off the X-C-V row! :What you mean is the Y key! No, no, no. Z goes between A and E, surely? You're thinking of the W key. :) AndyC
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From: "Andrew Cadley" <a.p.c...@uea.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <780oqr$a2m@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 434240327 References: <MPG.10fea95f452ce429989683@172.16.1.5> <77222d$fe3$1@remarQ.com> <36a25cf6.25636816@news.home.ibert.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47TJ, UK Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit