nemesis wrote:
> I like hypertext.

Hypertext is great for reference. It's lousy when you're trying to 
figure out you've read the whole thing.

Similarly, I like both index *and* table of contents in my textbooks. :-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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>I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know, 
> Notepad sucks.

I use TextPad.

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nemesis wrote:
...
> Every software has its quirks.  Read that as "Yank 3 blocks", "}" used because
> of its widespread use in computer programming as a block terminator.  Now, I
> understand "CTRL+C" as copy, because of C, but why Paste uses "v"?!  quirks...

Often used operations like Cut, Copy and Paste should be easy to do,
so it is wise to choose keys for those that are close to a special key,
like e.g. Ctrl.

The X, C and V keys are next to each others and so close to Ctrl that
you can keep your little finger on Ctrl while pressing them.

If you are writing on paper you can indicate were some text is to be
inserted by drawing something similar to a V between two words and a
little bit above them, and then the text to be inserted above the V.
V is therefore not a bad choice for Paste.

If you want to remove some text you could draw something similar to an
X over it. X is therefore not a bad choice for Cut.

And then you have C that is easy to remember as an abbreviation for
Copy.

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> The X, C and V keys are next to each others and so close to Ctrl that
> you can keep your little finger on Ctrl while pressing them.

That works great (NOT) in Dvorak keyboards, though.

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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> V is therefore not a bad choice for Paste.
> X is therefore not a bad choice for Cut.

Mmmmm. Geek ret-conning. :-)

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     at the end and adjust the release date.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> > V is therefore not a bad choice for Paste.
> > X is therefore not a bad choice for Cut.
>
> Mmmmm. Geek ret-conning. :-)

he's right.  V looks like an arrow pointing down, like "place it here".  And X
is for eXtract.  or it could be just for the proximity...

BTW, folding commands in vim begin with z.  why?  because z looks like a folded
paper looked from the side... :)

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And lo on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:38:10 -0000, nemesis  
<nam### [at] gmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>> > V is therefore not a bad choice for Paste.
>> > X is therefore not a bad choice for Cut.
>>
>> Mmmmm. Geek ret-conning. :-)
>
> he's right.  V looks like an arrow pointing down, like "place it here".   
> And X
> is for eXtract.  or it could be just for the proximity...

I always thought it was becaue Ctrl+C was Copy so they just put Cut and  
Paste either side of it.

Anyway I always say that X looks like a pair of scissors, so you just  
remember "Cut, Copy, Paste" and that's it for the shortcuts.

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Phil Cook

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> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>>> V is therefore not a bad choice for Paste.
>>> X is therefore not a bad choice for Cut.
>> Mmmmm. Geek ret-conning. :-)
> 
> he's right.  V looks like an arrow pointing down, like "place it here".  And X
> is for eXtract.  or it could be just for the proximity...

Look at the icon for cut, the scissors. Looks like an X too.

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