Editing Cut, copy, and paste (section)

===Origins===
The term "cut and paste" comes from the traditional practice in manuscript editing, whereby people cut paragraphs from a page with [[scissors]] and [[Adhesive|paste]] them onto another page. This practice remained standard into the 1980s. Stationery stores sold "editing scissors" with blades long enough to cut an 8½"-wide page. The advent of [[photocopier]]s made the practice easier and more flexible.

The act of copying or transferring text from one part of a computer-based document ("[[Data buffer|buffer]]") to a different location within the same or different computer-based document was a part of the earliest on-line computer editors. As soon as computer data entry moved from punch-cards to online files (in the mid/late 1960s) there were "commands" for accomplishing this operation. This mechanism was often used to transfer frequently-used commands or text snippets from additional buffers into the document, as was the case with the [[QED (text editor)|QED]] text editor.<ref name="communications1967">{{citation|doi=10.1145/363848.363863|last1=Deutsch|first1=L. Peter|author-link1=L. Peter Deutsch|last2=Lampson|first2=Butler W.|author-link2=Butler Lampson|title=An online editor|journal=Communications of the ACM|volume=10|issue=12|year=1967|pages=793–799, 803|s2cid=18441825|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/04-OnlineEditor/04-OnlineEditor.htm<!-- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=363848.363863&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=15669714&CFTOKEN=68334085 -->|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526060402/http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/04-OnlineEditor/04-OnlineEditor.htm|archive-date=2013-05-26|doi-access=free}}, p. 793.</ref>