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Most modern keyboard shortcuts are mnemonic such as Ctrl-S for Save, which makes them easier to remember than function keys.


Might be true for saving, but there are far too many shortcuts. What makes it easier to remember that Ctrl+X is cut and Ctrl+V is paste?


Ctrl-X for cut because scissors form an 'x' if you squint hard enough?


Also Ctrl-V looks like 2 pieces of paper being pasted together.


Assuming you speak English.


At some point OpenOffice decided that the shortcut to save was Ctrl-G because my locale was set to Spanish ("guardar").


Ctrl-S is for search !




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