[ih] cut and paste

[Steve Crocker]

I stand corrected.  Thanks.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 5:52 PM Michael Thomas via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> On 8/7/23 2:35 PM, Steve Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's funny that I had to actually think about this because I've used
> emacs so long that my fingers do the thinking, but C-C is not copy with
> either Gosmacs or Stallmacs (I forget what it was with Gosmacs, but in
> Stallmacs it's a prefix like Alt). Normally the way you copied was to
> set a mark, cut it (C-X) into the paste buffer and the yank (C-Y) it to
> put it back. Not sure when it was TECO based but I wouldn't be surprised
> if it was the same.
>
> Mike
>
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