Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim]
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it
> > is more “standard” fullstop. It is more standard by the virtue of
> > having worked for decades, C-Ins S-Ins S-Del existed way before the
> > C-C C-V C-X tryptich, and still working today in most contexts.
>
> Indeed, IIUC these key bindings were part of the CUA standard:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Indeed and CTRL-C & friends first appeared as Apple-C on the Lisa, it
seems and were appropriated by Microsoft after a while:
https://www.howtogeek.com/804030/the-origins-of-ctrlc-ctrlv-ctrlx-and-ctrlz-explained/
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