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Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who created the terms "cut," "copy," and "paste," has passed away at the age of 74 (17 Feb 2020).

In 1973, Tesler took a job at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he worked until 1980. Xerox PARC is famously known for developing the mouse-driven graphical user interface and during his time at the lab Tesler worked with Tim Mott to create a word processor called Gypsy that is best known for coining the terms "cut," "copy," and "paste".

In addition to "cut," "copy," and "paste" terminologies, Tesler was also an advocate for an approach to UI design known as modeless computing. It ensures that user actions remain consistent throughout an operating system's various functions and apps. When they've opened a word processor, for instance, users now just automatically assume that hitting any of the alphanumeric keys on their keyboard will result in that character showing up on-screen at the cursor's insertion point. But there was a time when word processors could be switched between multiple modes where typing on the keyboard would either add characters to a document or alternately allow functional commands to be entered.

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  • 24
    May he rest in piece.

    "There was a time when word processors could be switched between multiple modes where typing [...] would either add characters [...] or [...] allow functional commands [...]"

    Cough, ... Vim..., Cough, Cough...
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    @sbiewald exactly my thoughts :-)
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    Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who created the terms "cut," "copy," and "paste," has passed away at the age of 74 (17 Feb 2020).

    In 1973, Tesler took a job at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he worked until 1980. Xerox PARC is famously known for developing the mouse-driven graphical user interface and during his time at the lab Tesler worked with Tim Mott to create a word processor called Gypsy that is best known for coining the terms "cut," "copy," and "paste".

    In addition to "cut," "copy," and "paste" terminologies, Tesler was also an advocate for an approach to UI design known as modeless computing. It ensures that user actions remain consistent throughout an operating system's various functions and apps. When they've opened a word processor, for instance, users now just automatically assume that hitting any of the alphanumeric keys on their keyboard will result in that character showing up on-screen at the cursor's insertion point. But there was a time whe...
  • 4
    So the sane editor advocate died. When is the vim guy gonna die?!
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    @Demolishun he/she cant exit the world
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  • 4
    Everytime i hear the word xerox, i feel a weird sensation for steve jobs.

    That nasty asshole took away the glory from this amazing company which could have been the pioneer in today's generation.

    I won't say he was bad or good , but that guy had an extraordinary brain.

    RIP Steve, RIP larry tesler. RIP xerox
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    Fun fact: those poor guys are struggling these days to prevent their name from getting declared as generic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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