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Howard S Shubs wrote:
> 
> In article <1999Jan16.1...@ichtys.n-online.de>,
> k...@ichtys.n-online.de () wrote:
> 
> >C Lamb (cs...@stoat.shef.ac.uk) wrote:
> 
> >: 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.
> 
> I suspect it might have to do with the fact that before there was Windows,
> and before there was NeXT, there was Macintosh.  And that's how it's done
> on the Mac.  I don't know why the Mac does it that way.
>
Well, actually the Mac uses command-V for paste, *not* control-V.  Except for
the use of the command key instead of the control key, the cut, paste, et. al.
is the same.

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