Bug#192305: "q to end, b for begin" ambiguous
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 07:55:57PM +0800, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > Well, translating too much stuff (like a macro languages keywords/function
> > names, as the company we all know did) is worse. Actually the way German
> > keyboards are laid out, Ctrl-{"{","[","]","}"} is quite annoying, but besides
> > this: How much sense did keyboard shortcuts make in the first placa? (Ctrl-V
> > probably is short for "Very-convenieent-key-for-paste"?)
>
> I've no idea where ^V originated. I'm pretty sure it did something
> different in WordStart. The shortcut _I_ learned for paste (and which
> seems to work _and_ be more logical) is Control-INS.
>
> It works on OS/2 and WIndows, and I don't see any reason at all for yet
> another convention in that respect.
Shift-Ins surely? Control-Ins is traditionally copy.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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