Now, how many remember “why” Tesler decided he could use Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-F and have those commands be so readily accepted by (now) billions of computer users?
Because he was a CTRL freak?
“Silly Rabbit” /bad commercial voice
No, no. 8<)
The ^ (upwards “V”) was every editor’s handwritten mark to “insert text here” on a piece of paper.
“X” removes the “lined out text”
So, if you are “inserting text”, you are either using “^” or “V” - and the ^ wasn’t on every keyboard yet or accepted in 80 character IBM punch cards since it was a “power of ten” command.
And, if you are inserting text, you must have either “Copied it” or “Cut it” first. to keep things more clear, C = Copy and X became “Cut it out” from “X it out”
Yes. I remember that from typing classes in high school in the 1960s. Typewriters were everywhere, along with carbon sheets so you could have copies of your correspondence. Proofreader/editors made notations on the paper, so you could insert a fresh sheet of paper and start all over. Filled many a trashcan typing papers over and over. I still keep a manual typewriter (circa 1946) although never using it once computer printers came along (preferred it to dot matrix printers). My wife was a typist, and worked her way up to being an I.T. manager of a data site. Young people no longer remember rows of data entry clerks pounding away on manual typewriters, but we do.