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[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Apr 8, 2013 2:25 PM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 April 2013 20:13, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Liam thanks - where did you find out about ctrl-A
> Sorry, I omitted to answer your actual question.
> It is a standard CUA keystroke to select all. Works in most apps on
> most OSs. Selecting text to quote expands the "[...]" thing, so I
> stumbled across it by trial and error.

Part of the old LIM standard from the 80's if memory serves. LIM was the
first attempt I know of to get OS's and applications on the same page for
various things. That way, you could know a common set of keys and expect
them to work the same from application to application. Things like F1
always being 'help' and the like.
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