[ih] cut and paste

[Michael Thomas]

Crap, I swear this is the last correction: it was C-W (wipe), not C-X 
which was another prefix control key.

Mike

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