Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: JimP
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:01

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On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 18:41:33 -0600, Dave Garland
<dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:

>On 2/1/2018 4:31 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:48:03 +0000, Andrew Swallow wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/02/2018 06:46, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:46:41 +0000, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So why don't we have Ctrl-S for cut? Where S stands for secare ...
>>>>
>>>>        How about Ctrl-C for cut?
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Gene Wirchenko
>>>>
>>>
>>> May be Copy got their first.
>> 
>> Suppose the aim was to have all keys close at the keyboard. a-z-x-c
>> (all-undo-cut-copy). But makes me wonder why "paste" usually has CTRL-p then.
>> 
>It does?
>
>I just looked around on this Win machine... Thunderbird, Notepad, 
>Notepad+ (also accepts shift-INS), LibreOffice, IrfanView, MSPaint, 
>Adobe Premiere, Audacity, are all ctrl-V. Don't see anything at all 
>that's ctrl-p. There are a couple of programs that won't accept a 
>keyboard shortcut, but that's not what you're talking about. AFAIK my 
>Linux machine downstairs (with some different software) is pretty much 
>the same.

Ctrl-P is print.

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