Control-V

In the EDP Ctrl-V is an ASCII control character. It is produced by pressing the key combination Ctrl - V on the keyboard. For Mac OS is the keyboard shortcut ⌘ -V.

When used with other key combinations such as Ctrl- C, it allows you to copy and paste without having to use the mouse and shortcut menus.

In many graphical user interfaces, including Microsoft Windows and most of the X Window System -based desktop systems, Ctrl - V can be used to insert text from the clipboard at the current cursor position. The programs that run in the different desktop interfaces, such as word processing programs, use it. Ctrl-V was a key combination that was chosen by programmers at Xerox PARC for use when editing text. Probably was just the V-key chosen because it is located on the standard QWERTY keyboard together with Z, X and C in the left bottom row.

In UNIX terminals signaled Ctrl-V that the next character is to be treated as a literal. The mnemonic for this is "v for literally (English verbatim ) ". This makes it possible, readable display keyboard combinations such as Ctrl- C, Ctrl -Z or similar control sequences that would otherwise be interpreted by the terminal. This behavior was taken as bash or tcsh text editors such as vi and Unix shells that support editing text on the command line.