[ih] cut and paste

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

steve, yours truly is a bit perplexed how you could have been using "EMACS
regularly at MIT in the
late 60s" when:

"... The original EMACS was written in 1976 by David A. Moon and Guy L.
Steele Jr. as a set of macros for the TECO editor.[12][1][2][3][13] It was
inspired by the ideas of the TECO-macro editors TECMAC and TMACS.[14]

so sez:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs


On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 2:35 PM Steve Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> 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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