[ih] cut and paste

[Michael Thomas]

On 8/7/23 2:53 PM, Steve Crocker wrote:
> I stand corrected.  Thanks.

It only took me three times to get it right :)

Mike

>
> 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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