[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #221

["Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:19:59 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:


>> I prefer Delete to delete, shift-Delete to cut to clipboard,
>> Ctrl-Insert to copy to clipboard and shift-Insert to paste from
>> clipboard, only because that's what I've been using for 20+
>> years.

> Yup, it seems to me that the control combinations used by MS edit
> have become very widely used, almost universal now, and as much as
> I hate the source, I think they are the most intuitive, too.  There
> the ones I'd like Arachne to use.

I'm not at all sure that they originated with MS. I first used them with
MacWrite on a 128k Macintosh in the early 1980's.


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