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Article #146393Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
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In article <774jp6$l23$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com> edb_...@my-dejanews.com (edb_gene) writes: >That's like the old flow-control commands (XON/XOFF) where: >Ctrl-S was 'Stop' and Ctrl-Q was 'Qontinue' :-) Ouch. That's as bad as the mnemonic I heard for memorizing the hjkl keys in vi. H and L were easy - H is on the left so it moves you left, L is on the right so it moves you right. That leaves J and K - which is which? Well, J stands for "Jump" (down), and K stands for "Klimb". -- cgi...@sky.bus.com (Charlie Gibbs) Remove the first period after the "at" sign to reply.
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From: "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...@sky.bus.com> Subject: Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Date: 1999/01/08 Message-ID: <575.677T152T10543217@sky.bus.com> X-Deja-AN: 430522651 References: <MPG.10fea95f452ce429989683@172.16.1.5> <774jp6$l23$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: 9 Jan 1999 04:11:00 -0800, news.skybus.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit