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Article #146387Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
From: jsa... John Savard
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:00
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He...@there.com (Adrian Thompson) wrote, in part: >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! 1) X looks like a pair of scissors, so it's a good choice for "Cut". The word "Copy" starts with a C. Cut, Copy, and Paste are related functions, and X, C, and V are found next to one another on a typewriter keyboard. 2) The IBM PC keyboard has an "Insert" key, so there's no need to keep ^V for that function (what it did with the original WordStar). John Savard http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
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From: jsa...@tenMAPSONeerf.edmonton.ab.ca (John Savard) Subject: Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Date: 1999/01/07 Message-ID: <36950f00.12196466@news.prosurfr.com> X-Deja-AN: 429907992 References: <MPG.10fea95f452ce429989683@172.16.1.5> Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit