What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987(video.google.com)
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What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3953309968260107254
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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)
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.
/ search string
? search string
n to repeat
No thumbs needed.
The idea is very similar to Firefox's incremental search (and for that matter, even more similar to Emacs C-s and C-r).