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Article #146355Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
From: se... Peter Seebach
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
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In article <36952AD4...@danet.com>, J. Benz <be...@danet.com> wrote: >overwrites the old text that is there. 'Delete' works similarly to the >backspace, but as, well, errr... forward space - it deletes the character >under the cursor and 'pulls' the rest of the line to the left. I really like this behavior. I got used to it on the Amiga, where backspace was backspace and delete was delete. -s -- Copyright 1998, All rights reserved. Peter Seebach / se...@plethora.net C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon! Send me money - get cool programs and hardware! No commuting, please. Visit my new ISP <URL:http://www.plethora.net/> --- More Net, Less Spam!
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From: se...@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Date: 1999/01/08 Message-ID: <b7cl2.3062$TO5.73592@ptah.visi.com> X-Deja-AN: 429999149 References: <MPG.10fea95f452ce429989683@172.16.1.5> <36948e3e.5067316@news.demon.co.uk> <36952AD4.B9A61A74@danet.com> X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 915754567 205.166.146.8 (Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:16:07 CDT) Organization: Plethora . Net - more net, less spam! NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:16:07 CDT Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit