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In article <F57LM...@news.boeing.com>, "Ralph Wade Phillips"
<ral...@techie.com> wrote:

>Hi there!
>
>TheCentralSc...@pobox.com wrote in message ...
>>On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:22:43 -0000, 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!
>>
>>x=cut
>>c=copy
>>v=next key on keyboard
>
>        Actually, it comes from Command-X, Command-C, and Command-V on the
>Macintosh.
>
>        "So, Mr. Science, how were THEY picked?"
>
>        From the class I went to pre-1984 (December 1983, AAMOF), it went
>like this:
>
>        "X looks like a pair of scissors, so we CUT with X.  V looks like
>the tip of a paste brush from the side, so we PASTE with V.  C is stuck in
>the middle, and serves as a mnemonic for 'COPY', so we use C for Copy."
>
>        Sometime I'll dig out my ancient "Inside Macintosh" where they
>discuss this.

Don't forget cmd-Z for Undo.  Basically they took the top of the standard
Edit menu (Undo, Cut. Copy, Paste) and put them on the four keys at the
lower left of the keyboard, closest to the (single?) command key on the
original Macintosh keyboard.  Some programs even used command-B to mean
Clear, which was normally the command below Paste.
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Kevin Michael Vail    | I would rather have a mind opened by wonder
ke...@vailstar.com    | than one closed by belief.   -- Gerry Spence