[pmmail-list] A couple of 2634 wish list items....

Tim Roberts pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:39:26 -0700


On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:45:19 -0700 (PDT), Steve Wendt wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Frank Winkler @home wrote:
>
>>  >You're right that it's not a bug: the Windows standard keyboard shortcut
>>  >for "copy" is Ctrl-C, not Ctrl-Ins.  Ctrl-C works fine in the "From"
>>  >field.
>>  >
>>  >The Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins key sequences have been "deprecated" since Windows
>>  >3.1.
>>
>> Yep, but they are still used in OS/2 and even some X11 applications -
>> whereas
>> CTRL-C has a completely different meaning in the rest of the world. Another
>> example for M$ "standards" :/ ...
>
>Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins etc. are CUA compliant.  The Ctrl-C/X/V stuff comes
>from the Macintosh.  CUA is NOT deprecated.

OK, I relent.  I should have done my reading BEFORE I posted, not AFTER.


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