From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31290 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2002 20:11:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31283 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2002 20:11:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df-inet1.exchange.microsoft.com) (131.107.8.8) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2002 20:11:38 -0000 Received: from DF-VRS-01.redmond.corp.microsoft.com ([157.54.4.14]) by df-inet1.exchange.microsoft.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5255); Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:12:11 -0700 Received: from 10.197.0.60 by DF-VRS-01.redmond.corp.microsoft.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:11:35 -0700 Received: from df-stimpy.platinum.corp.microsoft.com ([10.197.0.48]) by DF-YURI.platinum.corp.microsoft.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:11:31 -0700 Received: from df-muttley.platinum.corp.microsoft.com ([10.197.1.66]) by df-stimpy.platinum.corp.microsoft.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3590.0); Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:11:24 -0700 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6236.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: bash and the delete key Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Stephan Mueller" To: "Samuel" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jul 2002 20:11:24.0084 (UTC) FILETIME=[473B0F40:01C23805] X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg02468.txt.bz2 Please note that the Ctrl-Insert/Shift-Insert/Shift-Delete keystrokes are legacy, supported for backwards compatibility. The modern standard is indeed Ctrl-C/V/X. >From "The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design" (covers Windows 95 and NT! -- so you know it's not brand new :-) "The system still supports shortcut assignments available in earlier versions of Microsoft Windows (Alt+Backspace, Shift+Insert, Ctrl+Insert, Shift+Delete). You should consider supporting them (though not documenting them) to support the transition of users." (This is a footnote in Appendix B, which documents the standard shortcuts - Ctrl-C/V/X among them). As long as folks don't actually make the transition, I suspect the OS will continue to support them, but please, let's not encourage folks to make the transition in the wrong direction :-) stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: Samuel [mailto:samuel@socal.rr.com]=20 Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:03 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash and the delete key ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randall R Schulz" To: Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:31 PM Subject: RE: bash and the delete key > > Mapping the insert clipboard to the "Insert" key is sufficiently=20 > "hella-useful." I did not pay sufficient attention to what I was doing and this reply got sent to Randall instead of to the list, so it has been delayed a day. I don't use Ctrl-V to insert the clipboard; I use Shift-Insert. I use Ctrl-Insert to copy to the clipboard and Shift-Delete to cut. These have been standard since Windows 3.1. I learned to use them by using the technique of remembering that Ctrl-Insert begins with "C" as in "Copy". If these keys were used in CygWin and if a Windows user were to get in the habit of using them in Windows then they should be able to use the "correct" keys by habit. I have encountered very few situations in which Ctrl-Insert does not work and in the situations it does not work I did not even think to try using Ctrl-V. I think that one situation in which Ctrl-Insert does not work is Adobe Acrobat (the find dialog at least) and all others are less common; at least less commonly used by me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/