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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:15:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Barry Buchbinder <bbuchbinder AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash and the delete key
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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> 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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