Re: Request for additional cut & paste standard keys

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9903141852160.14707-100000@providence.work.de>, Nils 
Jeppe writes:
+-----
| ctrl + insert : copy
| shift + insert : paste
| ctrl + del : cut
| 
| Much easier to memorize than those ctrl + letter combinations, and easier
| to reach, too, I think. These shortcuts date back to my pascal 5.0 on dos
| - times in high school... There was some standard that defined them, just
| don't ask me what it's called. Windows supports these, too, as did OS/2. I
| dunno about KDE, but I seem to remember using them in KLyX.
+--->8

IBM's Common User Access (CUA) Guidelines.  They're deprecated in post-OS/2
Microsoft OSes, BTW, but they are often still supported because so many
people got used to them.

I wouldn't mind seeing them in GNOME either (see .sig)

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