Dedicated Copy and Paste Keys
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 2/4/2016 1:00:00 AM
I hate using Control-C and Control-V to copy and paste.
One of the most innovative features of the original 1984 Apple Macintosh was the idea of a virtual "Clipboard", that allows people to cut, copy and paste things from place to place. It was a simple idea. Once you cut or copied something to your Clipboard, you could paste it someplace else. The trouble is Apple used an uncomfortable and often neglected keyboard combination instead of a dedicated key.
Although you can use the right mouse button to cut, copy, and paste, it's slower and more tedious when you need to copy or paste things like cells in a spreadsheet, where your hands tend to be on the keyboard arrow keys most of the time.
The biggest problem is that Control-C and Control-V are uncomfortable key combinations
Back in the 80s, the Control Key was located where the Caps Lock Key is now, so Control Key combinations weren't as uncomfortable, but the current location of the Control Key makes it completely awkward to type.
I find it odd that a lot of today's keyboard have all sorts of useless new keys, especially some from Dell, Microsoft and Logitech, where I've seen dedicated keys that launch browsers, email readers, and even calculators, yet they haven't considered something as simple keys for Cut, Copy and Paste.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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