TSE: Key

[knud van eeden]

Hello,

FYI:

 Q. TSE: Key: History: TimeLine: <Shift Del> <Ctrl Ins> <Shift Ins> <Ctrl C> <Ctrl V> <Ctrl X> / CutToWinClip() / CopyToWinClip() / PasteFromWinClip() / <Ctrl A> / MarkAll() / <Ctrl Z> / Undo()

Year:

1973: Larry Tesler (who did study computer science at Stanford University)

      had started to work at Xerox (he got this job via Alan Kay,

      the inventor of the computer language SmallTalk, they had worked together

      at the 'S'tanford 'A'rtificial 'I'ntelligence 'L'aboratory (=SAIL) in the late 1960s).

      He invented and developed 'cut', 'copy' and 'paste' for the Xerox

      Gypsy text editor.

      Note: 'find & replace': Besides inventing the 'cut', 'copy' and

                              'paste' functionality, he also invented

                              the

                               'find and replace'

                              where you enter text in a form that can

                              be edited before searching.

      The Xerox Gypsy text editor was running on the Xerox Alto

      computer, the first computer system designed around a 'G'raphical

      'U'ser 'I'nterface (=GUI).

       Larry Tesler

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler

      This Xerox 'Gypsy' text editor used so called 'modes', similar to

      e.g. the VIM text editor. So you have e.g. a 'command' mode in

      which you type editor commands and and 'edit' mode in which you

      type your usual text. Tesler who favored strongly 'modeless' made

      sure that the Gypsy text editor supported both, and 'mode' and

      'modeless'.

       Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z43y94Dfzk

      Note: Almost all other text editors, including TSE, are typically

            'modeless' editors.

      Note: Also 'cut', 'copy' and 'paste' are 'modeless' commands as

            you can type them in either a 'mode' state or also in a

            'non-mode' state.

      Born in 1945 in New York, USA, he studied computer science at

      Stanford University.

      Then he started in 1973 to work for Xerox (a printer company).

      In 1973 he invented and proposed the names

       cut, copy, paste

      functionalities which would become among the most commonly used

      features by users on theircomputers.

       <Ctrl X>    to remember: where 'X' looks like a pair of scissors used to cut or extract something

       <Ctrl C>    to remember: where 'C' is the first letter from 'C'opy

       <Ctrl V>    to remember: where 'V' looks like a physical symbol

                                pointing down to indicate to 'insert'

                                down something (e.g. insert into some text)

      Note: The 'cut' and the 'paste' command were reportedly inspired

            by old time editing that involved actually physically

            cutting portions of printed text on paper and affixing them

            elsewhere with real adhesive.

      Note: He was also the inventor of the word 'user-friendly', so

            that gives some hints about his way of thinking, e.g. wanting to have

            something like cut and paste instead of all the time having to

            repeatedly re-typing the exact same text manually.

             Every smart solution born from laziness

             https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGduVCH4R/

      He invented also the

      See also: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/larry-teslar-inventor-of-cut-copy-and-paste-dies-at-74-story-yBzDGtMGjU0XYv6AXZla1K.html

1974: Beginning in 1974, he and colleagues at Xerox PARC implemented

      several text editors that used cut/copy-and-paste commands to

      move and copy text.

1979: December: Steve Jobs visited the Xerox

      'P'alo 'A'lto 'R'esearch 'C'enter (=PARC) in December 1979.

       Note: The Agreement: The visit was arranged as part of a deal

             allowing Xerox to invest in Apple, giving them access to

             purchase Apple stock options in exchange for a

             demonstration of their technology.

      It was e.g. Larry Tesler at Xerox who demonstrated personally to

      Steve Jobs e.g. the cut, copy and paste command.

      Tesler demonstrated to Jobs the Xerox Alto computer, including

      its computer mouse-driven GUI features, the Gypsy text editor,

      and the Smalltalk computer language.

      While the Xerox Alto computer had been a mere curiosity for

      Xerox, Jobs saw a huge amount of potential in the graphical

      interface, and immediately after returning to Apple's

      headquarters, set his team on creating a similar graphical user

      interface for their first product, the Apple Lisa.

1980: Tesler was one of several Xerox PARC employees who left the Xerox

      company in 1980 to join Apple Computer following Jobs's visits.

1983: 13 January: The Apple Lisa computer was released to the public on

      January 19, 1983. It had implemented and incorporated e.g. Tesler's

      cut, copy and paste command.

      Note: As the Apple computers do not have a 'CTRL' key, they used

            the Apple 'Command' key instead.

       <Command X> for cut

       <Command C> for copy

       <Command V> for paste

1984: The popular Apple MacIntosh computer was released, which included the

      cut, copy and paste commands.

1985: The clipboard and basic cut/copy/paste functions were present in

      Microsoft Windows version 1.01.

1987: IBM released their 'C'ommon 'U'ser 'A'ccess (=CUA) standard guide lines.

      such as the

       1. consistent shortcut keys like F1 for help,

       2. standardized menu bar layout

       3. standardized pull-down menus

       4. user interface behaviors

      to ensure consistency across the emerging PC systems and IBM's

      OS/2 operating system.

      IBM Common User Access

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

      The CUA standard guide lines for shortcut keys define e.g.

       <Shift Del> for cut

       <Ctrl Ins> for copy

       <Shift Ins> for paste

      Note: The design of TSE follows many of those IBM CUA standard

            guide lines.

            See e.g. also the 'cuamark.s' macro in the TSE \MAC

            subdirectory.

1987: Microsoft began implementing the IBM Common User Access (=CUA)

      standard guide lines in its software, most notably in the

      Microsoft Windows version 2.0 operating system, following its

      publication in 1987 as part of IBM's Systems Application

      Architecture.

1991: <Ctrl C> and related shortcuts appeared in Microsoft Word for

      Windows version 2.0.

1992: Microsoft formally adopted the standard for copy (along with for

      cut and for paste) primarily with the release of Microsoft

      Windows version 3.1 in 1992, which aligned with the widespread

      adoption of the IBM Common User Access (CUA) standards.

      Note: Because the IBM computer keyboards do not have such an Apple

            'Command' key, they used the <Ctrl> key instead.

       <Ctrl X> for cut

       <Ctrl C> for copy

       <Ctrl V> for paste

       further:

       <Ctrl A> for select 'A'll (where 'A' is the first letter of 'A'll.

       <Ctrl Z> for undo

      Note: While Apple popularized the "C/V/X" layout with the Apple

            Lisa and Apple Macintosh in 1983-1984, Apple used the

            'Command' key instead of the <Ctrl> key.

      Note: Microsoft adopted these keys for Microsoft Windows to ease

            the transition for users moving from DOS to Windows,

            despite traditionally acting as a "break" or stop command

            in command-line environments.

2026: Currently latest TSE version 4.50.20 for Microsoft Windows has

      implemented some of these keys (see e.g. your .ui file used):

       cut:

       <Ctrl X>

       <Shift Del>

       CutToWinClip()

       copy:

       <Ctrl C>

       <Ctrl Ins)

       CopyToWinClip()

       paste:

       <Ctrl V>

       <Shift Ins>

       PasteFromWinClip())

       Further:

       select all:

       <Ctrl A>

       MarkAll()

       undo:

       <Ctrl Z>

       Undo()

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f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:21:45>grep -i "<Ctrl X>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\brief.ui

    "<ctrl x>                 SaveAllAndExit"

<ctrl x>                 SaveAllAndExit()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tse.ui

<Ctrl x>                ExecMacro()     // Execute SAL macro

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

<Ctrl x>                    Down()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Ctrl x>                CutToWinClip()

<Ctrl x>                CutToWinClip()

//<Ctrl x>                ExecMacro()     // Execute SAL macro ???

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

<ctrl x>                Down()

===

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:21:56>grep -i "<Shift Del>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\brief.ui

<Shift Del>             CutToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tse.ui

<Shift Del>             CutToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

<Shift Del>             CutToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Shift Del>             CutToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

   <shift del>             Cut

<Shift Del>             CutToWinClip()

===

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:28:45>grep -i "<Ctrl C>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\brief.ui

    "<ctrl c>                 CenterLine"

<ctrl c>                bCenterLine()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tse.ui

<Ctrl c>                GotoColumn()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

<Ctrl c>                    PageDown()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Ctrl c>                CopyToWinClip()

<Ctrl c>                CopyToWinClip()

//<Ctrl c>                GotoColumn() ???

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

<ctrl c>                PageDown()

===

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:29:23>grep -i "<Ctrl Ins>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\brief.ui

<Ctrl Ins>              CopyToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tse.ui

<Ctrl Ins>              CopyToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

<Ctrl Ins>              CopyToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Ctrl Ins>              CopyToWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

   <ctrl ins>              Copy

<Ctrl Ins>              CopyToWinClip()

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:30:32>

===

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:30:32>grep -i "<Ctrl V>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

<Ctrl v>                    ToggleInsert()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Ctrl v>                PasteFromWinClip()

<Ctrl v>                PasteReplaceFromWinClip()

//<Ctrl v>                Toggle(LineDrawing) ???

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

<ctrl v>                ToggleInsert()

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:31:47>

===

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:31:47>grep -i "<Shift Ins>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\brief.ui

<Shift Ins>             PasteFromWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tse.ui

<Shift Ins>             PasteFromWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

<Shift Ins>             PasteFromWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Shift Ins>             PasteReplaceFromWinClip()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

   <shift ins>             Paste

<Shift Ins>             PasteFromWinClip(column_replace_mode)

===

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:32:56>grep -i "<Ctrl A>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\brief.ui

    <Ctrl A>    mAsciiChart()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tse.ui

    <Ctrl A>    mAsciiChart()

<Ctrl a>                mAsciiChart()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

    <Ctrl A>    mAsciiChart()

    "             WordLeft                 <Ctrl CursorLeft>, <Ctrl A>"

<Ctrl a>                    WordLeft()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Ctrl a>                MarkAll()

//<Ctrl a>                mAsciiChart() ???

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

    <Ctrl A>    mAsciiChart()

<ctrl a>                WordLeft()

===

f:\wordproc\tse_beta\ui Thu  3/26/26 17:36:17>grep -i "<Ctrl Z>" *.*

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\brief.ui

    "<ctrl z>                 ZoomWindow"

<ctrl z>                 ZoomWindow()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tse.ui

<Ctrl z>                Scrolldown()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\tsejr.ui

    "             ScrollDown               <Ctrl Z>"

<Ctrl z>                    ScrollDown()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\win.ui

<Ctrl Z>                Undo()

File: F:\WORDPROC\tse_beta\ui\ws.ui

<ctrl z>                ScrollDown()

===

See also:

Cut, copy and paste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste

with friendly greetings

Knud van Eeden

[William W. Viergever]

Awesome trip down memory lane; thanks Knud 👍

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