Re: Windows Tip: copying error messages

["Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>]

Susan Hogarth pondered:

> MS, bizarrely enough, says control-insert rather than control-c -
> which does seem to work, but... why another keyboard combination?

Showing my age a bit here. ;)

I'm unsure why Microsoft would prefer this key combination, but you will 
probably find that it works in almost all cases where you would use Ctrl+C. 
It's because before Ctrl+C became the norm, the shortcuts in common use were 
Ctrl+Ins to copy and Shift+Ins to paste.

It would be interesting to find a resource that discussed how these 
shortcuts came into being. I did Google a bit on it. Never did find anything 
that took a stab at explaining it.

Cheers... Rick :)


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From: "Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 1:02 PM
Subject: Windows Tip: copying error messages


> Although you can't select the text in and error box, you can copy it
> to the clipboard. Which I just found out.
>
> http://lifehacker.com/software/windows-tip/copy-error-messages-text-to-the-clipboard-268547.php
>
> MS, bizarrely enough, says control-insert rather than control-c -
> which does seem to work, but... why another keyboard combination?
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