On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:10:48PM +0100, Christopher Allen wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > > ctrl-ins and shift-ins have been around for a while... Perhaps longer than > > ctrl-v? It probably varies from the dos/windows world to the unix world. > > As far as can recall, DOS programs used shift-delete, control-insert and > shift-insert long before Windows programs also began accepting C-x, > C-c, and C-v, but the latter are actually much older, being derived > from Macintosh's command-x, command-c, and command-v. This was > probably derived from the Lisa, but I don't know for sure. ctrl-insert, shift-delete and so on are from CUA, the Common User Access specification by IBM. Windows followed this when it was partially written by IBM, and migrated to the Macintosh variant when it was partially written by Apple. There are so many "standards" for user interfaces, you can do anything you like and you'll be compliant with some of them. I recommend assigning keys randomly; that way users won't waste time guessing, but instead will know that they have to read the documentation before using the program. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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