Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: k...
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:00

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C Lamb (cs...@stoat.shef.ac.uk) wrote:
: Adrian Thompson (He...@there.com) wrote:
: : Hi.
: : Can anyone out there tell me why Windows uses Ctrl-V as a keyboard 
: : shortcut for Paste? I've just been asked by one fo the children here, and 
: : I realised I have no idea!

: I suppose, but don't treat as gospel, that since cut is ctrl-x - analogous
: to the 'del char' in vi and the shape of 'x' looks like crossing something
: out and copy is ctrl-c - well, the first letter of copy is 'c', the next
: key combination is, well, ctrl-v. Makes a happy little block of keys.

Take a look at a NeXT keyboard, and you get obvious confirmation.

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