Re: Any Unicode Experts?

From	jak <nospam@please.ty>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Any Unicode Experts?
Date	2021-08-09 07:28 +0200
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Il 09/08/2021 02:00, rbowman ha scritto:
> On 08/08/2021 12:32 PM, jak wrote:
>> Il 08/08/2021 06:50, rbowman ha scritto:
>>> On 08/07/2021 10:32 PM, Eli the Bearded wrote:
>>>> Ctrl-C for Copy I think exists because Command-C for copy first 
>>>> existed.
>>>> Neither has anything to do with the ASCII control character ETX.
>>>
>>> I'm probably wrong but I think WordStar had an influence.
>>
>> I don't think so. These are the old commands for wordstar:
>> https://sfwriter.com/wordstar-command-summary.pdf
>> In my memory the first Ctrl-X/Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V shortcuts I saw with the
>> first full-screen commands in ms-dos 3.1: explorer.exe and qbasic.exe.
>> Explorer was very similar to the Windows version but in semi-graphics
>> (video in text mode and windows drawn with ascii-extended fonts). These
>> programs finally allowed to use the mouse making the old shortcuts
>> difficult to use (Shift-Del/Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins) with the left hand
>> (to keep the right hand on the mouse), however the old shortcuts also
>> work today and often even with programs that suppress the new shortcuts.
>>
>> cheers
> 
> Brief had those key bindings but by '85 it wasn't clear who was copying 
> who. That was the only programming editor I ever paid money for. Borland 
> bought it and buried it.
> 
> I'm not a power user of the VS editor but 35 years later it seems to 
> lack the features of Brief.

In this way you make me dig up the past ... At that time I started
developing in dos and windows but I came from the unix and xenix world,
so the only editor I knew was the Vi, so I got a copy that ran under dos
. A powerful copy weighing 17KB. I stopped using it only many years
later when Multiedit (an amazing editor) came on the market.

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Any Unicode Experts? FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 14:39 +0000
  Re: Any Unicode Experts? FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 15:01 +0000
  US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2021-08-06 08:15 -0700
    Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-08-06 17:36 +0200
      Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 15:49 +0000
        Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-08-06 18:48 +0200
        Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 17:57 +0000
  Re: Any Unicode Experts? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-08-06 18:10 +0000
  Re: Any Unicode Experts? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-06 20:27 +0000
    Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-07 09:36 +0100
      Re: Any Unicode Experts? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-08 04:32 +0000
        Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-07 22:50 -0600
          Re: Any Unicode Experts? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-08-08 17:27 +0000
            Re: Any Unicode Experts? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-08-08 20:21 +0200
            Re: Any Unicode Experts? Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2021-08-09 13:58 +0000
          Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-08 20:32 +0200
            Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-08 18:00 -0600
              "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2021-08-08 18:11 -0700
                Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-08 22:19 -0600
                Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2021-08-16 16:06 +0200
                Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 18:02 +0200
                while(malloc(666)); Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2021-08-10 09:28 -0700
                Re: while(malloc(666)); jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 18:39 +0200
              Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-09 07:28 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-09 07:56 -0600
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 10:33 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-10 12:49 +0100
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 15:26 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2021-08-10 13:43 +0000
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-10 21:12 -0600
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-11 12:25 +0100
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-11 16:52 +0000
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-11 20:19 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-12 16:37 +0000
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-12 20:32 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-12 20:40 -0600
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-10 16:11 -0400
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2021-08-13 17:42 +0000

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