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History of incremental searching
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Alan Mackenzie |
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History of incremental searching |
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Mon, 17 May 2004 12:42:48 +0000 |
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Just out of curiosity, does anybody here know the how, when, where and by
whom of incremental searching?
When was it invented, and in which product? Did it arise first in Emacs?
Whose idea was it?
I think it is a truly remarkable idea, surely worthy of a p***nt (please
excuse my language here) if any software idea is.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").