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[Dylan Reinhardt]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:08:26, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:35:33PM -0800, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:35:22, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
> > > Does having to hit Ctrl-C to copy, and and Ctrl-V
> > > to paste really have to be mandatory?  Why not just do it the right
> > > way, select copies, middle-click pastes?  
> > 
> > Because when Apple pioneered the use of cut/copy & paste (ca. 1981),
> > they used ^X, ^C, and ^V.  When MS stole their look & feel, it only made
> > sense to take their well-known keyboard shortcuts too.  :-)
> 
> That was 20 years ago.  

And we usually retire ideas after a few years, right?  That must be why
we're still using bash, BIND, vi[m], etc. etc.  SMTP has been
sub-optimal for years but we're still using *that*, aren't we?  

Standards have tremendous value, whether or not they are optimal
standards.  Fact is, most of what we do on a daily basis is because of
something that made sense in the 1960's or 1970's.  Whether or not it
makes sense now is frequently irrelevant.


> Everyone else has moved on.

Have they?  Many X11 apps support ^C and ^V, including Evo and Mozilla. 

Highlight-and-click is a great technique, but it makes pasting *over*
another selection more cumbersome.  And it's often harder on a laptop.

Choice is good.  There's no need to anoint one "right" way to do such a
common thing.

$.02 more,

Dylan