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"Ctrl" + "C" copy

A little advice

Copy, cut, and paste are the basics of the shortcut keys.Many people are already wearing them as they use.

But, for example, a beginner is assigned a shortcut key to "Ctrl" + "C", "Ctrl" + "X", "Ctrl" + "V"?I think that there are few people who can explain the reason and how to learn this shortcut key.Most of them have never thought about why they are allocated to this key, as they are a shortcut key that has already been remembered.

First, it is easy to remember that the copy is assigned to "Ctrl" + "C".C, the acronym for copy (Copy), is a pattern used in the shortcut key.

But the other two are the problems.Since the cut (cut) is used in English, if it is the same logic, it will also be "Ctrl" + "C".However, the key assigned to the cut is "Ctrl" + "X".Not "Ctrl" + "C".

Regarding the cut -out, it can be learned by connecting the image of "cut with scissors" with "X".The shape of "X" is regarded as scissors.It is associated with cutting with scissors → cutting with x → "Ctrl" + "X".

In addition, the troublesome thing is pasting.Paste is assigned to "Ctrl" + "V".However, the English meaning paste is "Paste", and if you take the initials of the word, it should be "Ctrl" + "P".However, "Ctrl" + "V" is assigned to pasting.

This is a little brute force, but it seems that the editor before the computer became widespread would have a habit of writing "V" when you wanted to insert a string, so I turned from there.There is a method of assigning "V" to paste.It feels a little aggressive, but it's not bad to remember.

Here, let's look at the arrangement on the keyboard of "C", "X" and "V".It is arranged continuously in the lower left as follows.

Copy, cut, and paste are operations belonging to a group of the same meaning, so it is convenient to be organized in the same place like this.As we have featured several times, it is common to allocate the same group's operation to a side -by -side key.Copying, cutting, and pasting are as side -by -side arrangements.

Actually, the shortcut key of "Ctrl" + "C", "Ctrl" + "X", "Ctrl" + "V" was a shortcut key used in the editor developed in the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s.It is said (reference "Larry Tesler -Wikipedia").Those who are said to have been involved in the development of this shortcut key have since joined Apple, and the same shortcut keys are now used in Apple ("⌘" + "C" + "X" + "X" in Apple., "⌘" + "V").It is a history that is often said that this key spreads to the world and is now in the de facto standard position.

I guess the Palo Alto Research Center did not know how the "Ctrl" + "C" + "X", "Ctrl" + "V" was selected at the time, so I guess it is speculated.There is only.Since the key is organized in the lower left, I have the impression that it may have been decided on the premise that the left and right keys of "C" were cut out and pasted to some extent.The purpose you see from there is scissors (X), and the pasting is an image that is marked with V as it is inserted.If the pasting is set to "Ctrl" + "P", it is too far from "C" and "X", so the idea is to assign it to a side -by -side key.This may be the same as the idea at that time.

After all, I don't know why it became "Ctrl" + "C", "Ctrl" + "X", "Ctrl" + "V", but this small story is a hook and "Ctrl" + "CI hope you can remember "Ctrl" + "X", "Ctrl" + "V".

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