Re: Shift-Insert and primary selection

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 28/03/2014 03:38, William Swanson wrote:
> Before ctrl+c and ctrl+v were standardized, a lot of old MS-DOS 
> software used ctrl-insert for copy and shift-insert for paste. I'm 
> surprised these old shortcuts are still supported. 
Most Windows programs still support them and it's probably a good thing 
too.!  I'm not talking specifically about gtk+ programs but as a long 
term Windows user, I still find myself surprised at how often ctrl+v 
fails to work.  i.e. ctrl+c does put something onto the clipboard - but 
ctrl+v fails to retrieve it and I either need to resort to a menu, or to 
shift+insert.  Admittedly, I couldn't claim it happens every day - or 
even every week - but I regularly find situations where ctrl+v doesn't 
seem to work for some reason  :-(
John