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(though I believe they occupy the same location on the keyboard)
Not really. I gotta squinch my fingers all up to do apple-x but not ctrl-x.
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ah, but control on a mac is in the same place as alt on a Windoze....
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(though I believe they occupy the same location on the keyboard)
Not really. I gotta squinch my fingers all up to do apple-x but not ctrl-x.
Thats 'cause you've got a first gen iMac.
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...which comparisons may remind us we're all different and unique, just like the next guy. ;]
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> we're all different and unique, just like the next guy
I got no truck with that, Jimmy Dean.
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...which comparisons may remind us we're all different and unique, just like the next guy. ;]
But we all have varying degrees of uniqueosity
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Mav: It is more trouble than it is. The requirement for excessive keystrokes to accomplish tasks frequently needed is one of the ways Bill Gates and his little fiends have devised to badger us
When Windows Word, for instance, decides a file has too many misspelled words, it shuts down the spellcheck algorithm. A routine of 18 keystrokes is needed to restore it
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What I tend to do, after having learned from bitter experience myself, is select all using CONTROL-A, then I cut using CONTROL-X, and then paste it right back in using CONTROL-V. Why do I use cut and not copy? Well, I am paranoid, that's why. If I use cut and I don't see the text disappear, I know I mis-typed. If it does disappear, I know I've successfully copied it to the clipboard just like using the copy command CONTROL-C. If I just use the copy command then I have no visible reassurance that I have copied correctly.
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yeahbut... once you've selected all text, any keystroke combination will delete it, without necessarily taking a clipboard version - for example, if you accidently hit control/z instead of control/x... 
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