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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by Jtsummers on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:02PM (#4096243)
What do you mean, "No ctrl-C?" As in no keyboard shortcut to copy? That's "command-c", just like pasting is "command-v" and cutting is "command-x". And if you mean ctrl-c, to kill tasks on the command line, that works just fine. And delightfully doesn't create confusion when you wanted to copy something out of the terminal instead of killing the program that was running.
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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by swah on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:11PM (#4096286)
Sorry I mean't no "Ctrl-X" (is there Cut on OSX?)

[edit: I've only used Snow Leopard]

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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by calinet6 on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:19PM (#4096335)
This has been added in 10.7 (albeit by a slightly different means):

"Command-C" then "Command-Option-V" will remove the originating file.

I actually like it better; you get to decide how to treat the files when the operation is actually executed, not when you initiate it. This negates the need to go back and remove the files when you realize you meant to Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C.

A source: http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/29/cut-and-paste-mac-os-x-lion/

(And to the other replies: he means in Finder. Cutting files hasn't been possible prior to 10.7)

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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by Jtsummers on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:18PM (#4096330)
Yes, "Command-X" handles that case. Pretty much every editing shortcut from Windows converts over by using command in place of ctrl. Though I couldn't state that that's always been true, it has been as long as I have used Macs (late '06).
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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by ghshephard on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:19PM (#4096334)
Yes, there is a cut/copy/paste (CMD+X, CMD+C, CMD+V).

There was a time (don't recall which iterations) in which the MAC OS finder didn't support those three for _files_ - but I think they've always worked for images/text/etc...

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