Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: Rick Lugg
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00

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OK who's the joker with the Dvorak keyboard!

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Rick Lugg

Andrew Cadley wrote in message <780oqr$a...@cpca3.uea.ac.uk>...
>
>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: "Rick Lugg" <ricklugg@intekom.co.za.hmmm>
Subject: Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
Date: 1999/01/19
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