On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > I've found that most apps these days follow the same convention for > the really > standard stuff -- cut/copy/paste, save, except that the Mac uses > "command" where Windows and Linux (which is to say KDE, GNOME, and > Mozilla) use "control" -- why apple ever even added a control key, > rather than making command==control, I'll never know. But there you > go.
My recollection is that the control key has been around since the stone ages (ASR-33 teletypes, at least) and that many of the standard control-key combinations (ctl-C, for one) had their well-defined meanings long before the Mac was introduced. For Apple to introduce a command key rather than saying ctl-c no longer meant 'interrupt' but now 'copy' makes sense. That MS (or IBM, or whoever) decided to start using ctl-key combinations to mirror Apple's cmd-key combinations seems like the more egregious offense. (If I'm misremembering the history, please correct me.) Tom _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
