Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:38

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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes:
>On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:46:41 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
>>
>> gtaxin wrote:
>>
>>> in AD MCMXCIX Adrian Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone out there tell me why Windows uses Ctrl-V as a keyboard
>>>> shortcut for Paste? >
>>> V stands for Vipectus which is latin for paste> 
>>
>> So why don't we have Ctrl-S for cut? Where S stands for secare ...
>
>I figured on many systems, including Linux but also CP/M (probably
>MS-DOS?) Ctrl-S causes a scroll lock. While Ctrl-Q resumes scrolling.

CTRL-S was used back in the day on ASR-33's with unix to stop output.   Control Q
continues output.    Those functions live on today.

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