Other Copy Cut Paste Keys

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Published: 10/01/2013 UTC

Updated: 10/01/2013 UTC

After talking to a bunch of other people about the second set of copy cut paste keys, I was surprised to find that not many people knew about them.

Long ago my first programming language was qBasic and it did not have the well-known ctrl-c etc shortcut keys, it had a very different key combo. These key were:

• shift-delete - Cut
• ctrl-insert - Copy
• shift-insert - Paste

These keys come in handy occasionally, especially when doing lots of repetitive tasks, and the ctrl-c keys are too far away.

The only issue that I seem to come across is that sometimes if you are shift-selecting things, and you hit delete before releasing shift, you end up adding to the current clipboard!

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