Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 50, Issue 7

[Jan Djärv]

Michael Welsh Duggan skrev:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >     I suggest that at least the above sentence must be removed, as it 
> >     incorrectly gives the designers of Windows credit for the CUA standard.
> >
> > Who did design that specification?
>
> > From Wikipedia:
>
>   Common User Access (CUA) is a set of guidelines for the user
>   interface to personal computer operating systems and computer
>   programs, developed by IBM and first published in 1987 as part of
>   their Systems Application Architecture. Used originally in the OS/2
>   and Microsoft Windows operating systems, parts of the CUA standard
>   are now implemented in programs for other operating systems,
>   including variants of Unix. Java AWT and Swing use it as well.
>
> CUA did draw inspiration from Apple's Himan Interface Guidelines.
> Interestingly enough.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access

This was interesting:

The Cut command is [Shift]+[Del]; Copy is [Ctrl]+[Ins]; Paste is [Shift]+[Ins];

So is Ctrl-C/V/X really part of CUA at all?

        Jan D.