[ih] cut and paste

[Steve Crocker]

EMACS had -- and still has -- control-X for cutting, control-C for copying,
and, IIRC, control-V for pasting.  I used EMACS regularly at MIT in the
late 60s.  Others can supply more details.  HOWEVER, I don't believe a
mouse was involved.  It was straight ASCII text, without fonts, boldface,
etc.

I assume the references to Larry Tesler pertained to cut-and-paste in the
context of a graphical user interface.

Steve
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On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 5:30 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> There has been a spate of FB postings, reminding folk that Larry Tesler
> created cut and paste.
>
> My confusion is that I'd swear Tenex (and maybe Top-10 and maybe one or
> another system at MIT) had ctl-C and ctl-V and probably ctl-X in the
> earliest 1970s, if not earlier.  References to Tesler's innovation say
> it was at Parc.
>
> Anyone care with resolve the confusion?
>
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