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I’ve tried to get use to the Windows shortcuts for Cut, Copy, Paste, but I can’t do it. I find it much more natural to do editing with one hand; since the arrow keys are on the right side of the keyboard, I use Shift-Delete, Ctrl-Insert, and Shift-Insert. These are throwbacks to the DOS age, but Windows still supports them as default cut-copy-paste keys.

So it bugs me when programs over-ride the function of these keys. The latest to do this is the Xilinx ISE Megalopolis of Software. I use this program for some light VHDL work for one of the Xilinx CPLD chips we use in my office. If that were the only problem with ISE, I wouldn’t mind too much, but the program crashing is also very distracting. Every time I compile my project, ISE will either lockup or simply disappear.
After downloading an updated version all of today, (900MB download) and seeing that they have not fixed these serious infractions, I’m putting the Xilinx ISE software team on my list….. right under the grizzly bears.