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Article #620025Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 03:42
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 03:42
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On 02/02/2018 00:41, Dave Garland 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 was the short cut for Print
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