Talk:Clipboard (computing)

History
I think this could do with information about the history of the clipboard. Has it been present in all GUI evnironments, or which was the first (or first few, as the case tends to be with GUI features) to implement it. Nick Fel 09:28, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Seconded. We need links to clipbaord software applications.  I'm gonna try creating a category, but I don't know any except Textpad.  Mathiastck 09:48, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh? What has a text editor to do with a feature of the GUI?Geira (talk) 13:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the shift-delete/ctrl-insert combos were the original clipboard manipulation keys in the first versions of Windows. The alternate ctrl-X/C/V ("borrowed" from MacOS) were added much later. Since Microsoft were |sued by Apple for "look and feel" issues in 1988, and I started using both Windows and MacOS in 1987 I'm pretty sure that these were not available in Windows 1.0 and probably not in 2.0. Hard to dig up documentation on this via Google though.Geira (talk) 13:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This isn't true. The early "online" editors (1960s) used these control characters. I added the earliest reference I know of to Control-V.--Quinn d (talk) 02:44, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The reference you added to Cut, copy, and paste does not support this, unfortunately. Can you clarify? See: Talk:Cut, copy, and paste.
 * --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment: not all cut-and-paste is done through the (one) clipboard. Rather, clipboard MAY be merged here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.178.98 (talk) 16:05, 5 February 2009 (UTC) COMMENT: 10/24/2010 I recommend that this be kept separate. I reference it on a website to tell people how to copy/cut and paste. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.124.227.72 (talk) 13:30, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I also think it should be kept separate. Before there was a "clipboard" there were buffers (and there still are), and these commands were used to move text and commands in and out of the buffers.--Quinn d (talk) 02:44, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

For unices there is also parcellite, http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/ It should be added to the list. 80.74.176.55 (talk) 14:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

I *think* Nick Fel was asking for the history of the clipboard feature at all. The Ctrl-C Wikipedia page say it was present on Xerox PARC, but it lacks of citations (Control-C) -- Arturotena (talk) 16:11, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Larry Tesler himself says something about the history on the talk page of the cut, copy and paste article. See: Talk:Cut, copy, and paste GiMaWolf (talk) 08:01, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Unclear and misleading
"In older versions of Windows the common practice was to open a copy of the 'Notepad' or 'Wordpad' editor" Which older versions? Windows 3.1 has a Clipboard Viewer already. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.228.113.52 (talk) 14:40, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Moving list of clipboard software to "Clipboard Manager" article, removing section "Operating system-specific clipboards"
As part of extra-credit work for a course I teach, a student would like to significantly improve this article by adding implementation details and history about clipboards. We both feel that the following two sections in the current version of the article should be (re)moved:


 * We'd like to move Clipboard (computing) to the Clipboard manager article. This list would much better fit there, as it really is a list of clipboard managers, not of operating-system clipboards.
 * Furthermore, we'd like to remove large parts of Clipboard (computing) that describe shortcuts for copy/cut/paste on different operating systems. These shortcuts do not belong to the clipboard (as an interface provided by the OS) but to the interaction technique Copy and paste. As the shortcuts are already described in the latter article, we'd like to remove this information from Clipboard (computing) and replace it with a link to Copy and paste.

Are there any objections to these changes?

(Pinging as you reverted an earlier removal of the list by a different user and requested discussion.)

Examples of articles that have been improved by my students ins the past: Keystroke-level_model, Pointing device, GOMS.

Raphman (talk) 21:12, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I think both changes you suggest make sense. Awesome that you are involving students to improve our encyclopedia. = paul2520 (talk) 21:55, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Assessment
An assesment has been requested by. I am assessing this as a low C-class or high Start-class. With benefit-of-doubt, I have marked it as a C-class, mid-importance computing article.

I have marked an unreferenced section. We should consider removing or reworking WP:NOTHOWTO content in Operating system-specific clipboards. If these things are done, the article would be a solid C-class. ~Kvng (talk) 16:53, 17 March 2018 (UTC)