bash and the delete key

Jelks Cabaniss jelks@jelks.nu
Wed Jul 31 13:33:00 GMT 2002


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).  But with Win 3.1,
they adopted the Mac conventions (instead of Cmd+X ... it was Ctrl+X
...) and just kept those old keys for backwards compatibility.  Modern
Win programs don't have Shift+Insert ... on their Edit menus.  

But most people -- especially those using Cygwin! -- don't have a
problem with overloaded CTRL key functions.  When in vi, I certainly
don't expect my NoteTab Pro CTRL keys to work.  :)


/Jelks


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