23 Feb
2001
23 Feb
'01
6:28 a.m.
"Edwin P. Groot" <epgroot(a)ucdavis.edu> writes:
A thought occured to me as I was trying to figure
out setting up
X-Windows to use certain editing shortcuts:
^Z = Undo
^X = Cut
^C = Copy
^V = Paste ;how the ^H^H^H^H does a v represent insert text from cut
buffer?
These are ubiquitous now in Windows programs, but who came up with
this group of editing shortcuts that cluster so neatly on the bottom left
of the keyboard, right by the Ctrl key back in the early micros?
The Apple Lisa, introduced in January 1983. It wasn't the control key,
though. It was the Apple key. But the principle's the same.