Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim

Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by boxfire on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:14PM (#14406272)

^C as copy is an example of breaking well established patterns that screw new users. Its THE canonical example in fact.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by photojosh on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:40PM (#14406987)

^C is SIGINT. ⌘C is copy.

I blame Microsoft.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by isostatic on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:22AM (#14407596)

Didn't Ms"S use to use CTRL-Ins or similar?

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by JdeBP on Friday May 26, 2017 @12:24PM (#14425197)

The name that you want to look up is Common User Access.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by photojosh on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:53PM (#14457887)

Well TIL, thanks! Interesting to know the history.

(I still have a few Windows apps we use at work that use these standards; good to know they actually were a standard.)

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by Houshalter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:15PM (#14406894)

I really don't care who is responsible or which came first. I'm only pointing out the inconsistency and the problems it causes.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by wruza on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:19PM (#14407373)

Don't worry, in few years new bindings will be familiar to new people straight from their birth date. Then they will complain about changes and you'll tell them that changes were made long before.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by majewsky on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:14AM (#14408870)

Shortly after the introduction of the first generation of brain-computer interfaces: "Why do I have to think of Ctrl-C to copy text in this program? All the other programs have me think of a banana to copy a selection!"

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