Borland IDEs, Norton Commander (and its alternatives) built-in text editor, and programs that mimicked those green-grayish or blue-grayish text mode windows. Or those simply made with Turbo Vision.
Ah yes, I now remember using F2 on Turbo Pascal. Thanks for the reminder :)
I remember F2 being save in the DOS era, or maybe I'm misremembering and it was F3...
But for many years I've associated F2 with edit or rename.
I do remember when ctrl+shift+insert was common for paste (rather than ctrl+v). I can't remember off hand was copy was beyond it being a similar key combination. Still trips me up these days using cmd instead of ctrl on macs.
ctrl+insert for copy and shift+insert for paste are still a thing in the majority of places in Windows, though I think only the ancients like me use them (people newer to the game being taught ctrl+C & ctrl+V from the start).
Not long ago I even spotted it being usable in an app that blocked ctrl+C/ctrl+V.
Re:The end of the nice GTK button
by garaetjjte on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:19AM
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mcedit does have save on F2 (which I guess is carried over from DOS Norton Commander): https://rubenerd.com/files/2009/3612703566_52304223da_o.png
Also worth noting that keyboards do still have function keys. In fact I use F2 as my `tmux` control prefix. :)