What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3953309968260107254

by krying_krab • 17 years ago

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ghshephard• 17 years ago

I'll summarize for those who don't want to actually watch the entire 17 1/2 minute video (the last six minutes of which consist of a Piano Rendition with the word "LEAP (R)" on the screen)

   A keyboard with two keys dedicated to CMD-F, CMD-Shift-G .

krying_krab• 17 years ago

The idea is very similar to Firefox's incremental search (and for that matter, even more similar to Emacs C-s and C-r).

teilo• 17 years ago

Wow. Talk about over-engineering. This was a software problem, not a hardware problem, solved about ten years prior to 1987 by vi:

/ search string

? search string

n to repeat

No thumbs needed.

What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987

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