Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/31/16:15:57
> On 31 Jul 2002 at 14:09, Jelks Cabaniss wrote:
>
> > Barry Buchbinder wrote:
> >
> > > Regarding "The support of ... are so universal":
M$
> > > considers their way to be universal, and
considering
> > > their market share, it is closer to being true
than
> > > many of us like.
> >
> > Universality is somewhat relative. :) Those
keystrokes were in Windows
> > 3.0 and early OS/2's (and Ctrl+X, C, & V weren't).
>
> And MS-DOS applications. Lots of them. The editor
that came with
> later versions of MS-DOS (3.x and above IIRC) for
one; also the
> qbasic environment.
If we're looking at what M$ used to do, IIRC they used
to publish a Unix clone (Minix?). But it's been a
long time since one might consider Bill Gates as an
advocate of any flavor of *nix. :)
I was using ^V in Vi in the mid '80s and constantly
got confused with shift-insert, etc. when I played
with qbasic some years later. So I know some of the
history. It's just no longer relevant that M$ used to
put out software that behaved like that -- its been
years since they did so. My original -- admittedly
unstated -- point was that anyone advocating that M$
change copy, paste, and cut so it behaves a bit like
non-M$ software is likely to spend more time composing
the letter than all of M$ will in considering it.
- Barry
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