<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dear all</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Interesting that Larry Tesler (who has just died) is credited with inventing</div><div dir="auto">cut and paste in the 1980s because cut, copy and paste were available in</div><div dir="auto">WordStar in the 1970s.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The only difference appears to be that cutting on the Apple Lisa saved the</div><div dir="auto">text to a clipboard. In WordStar, cut just cut, paste automatically cut and</div><div dir="auto">pasted and copy pasted without cutting.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In WordStar you had the equivalent of the clipboard because your selected text</div><div dir="auto">remained highlighted until you unhighlighted it or made a new selection.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So perhaps he should be credited with inventing the clipboard, not cut and</div><div dir="auto">paste.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--</div><div dir="auto">Bradford mailing list</div><div dir="auto"><a href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 23:39 John Robert Hudson via Bradford, <<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all<br>
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Interesting that Larry Tesler (who has just died) is credited with inventing <br>
cut and paste in the 1980s because cut, copy and paste were available in <br>
WordStar in the 1970s.<br>
<br>
The only difference appears to be that cutting on the Apple Lisa saved the <br>
text to a clipboard. In WordStar, cut just cut, paste automatically cut and <br>
pasted and copy pasted without cutting.<br>
<br>
In WordStar you had the equivalent of the clipboard because your selected text <br>
remained highlighted until you unhighlighted it or made a new selection.<br>
<br>
So perhaps he should be credited with inventing the clipboard, not cut and <br>
paste.<br>
<br>
John<br>
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