Editing Context menu (section)

== History ==
Context menus first appeared in the [[Smalltalk]] environment on the [[Xerox Alto]] computer, where they were called ''pop-up menus''; they were invented by [[Dan Ingalls]] in the mid-1970s.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=auAXfVwNAJoC&q=Dan+Ingalls+pop+up+menu&pg=PA252 |title=Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation |author=R. Keith Sawyer |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=USA |year=2012|isbn=9780199737574 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nneBa6-mWfgC&q=Dan+Ingalls+pop+up+menu&pg=PA373 |title=Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming |author=Peter Seibel |publisher=Apress |date=September 16, 2009|isbn=9781430219484 }}</ref>

[[Microsoft Office]] v3.0 introduced the context menu for copy and paste functionality in 1990. [[Borland]] demonstrated extensive use of the context menu in 1991 at the Second Paradox Conference in Phoenix Arizona. [[Lotus 1-2-3]]/G for [[OS/2]] v1.0 added additional formatting options in 1991. Borland [[Quattro Pro]] for Windows v1.0 introduced the Properties context menu option in 1992.