From: John Charlton (johncharlton_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 18:10:50 PST
Bruce E. Durocher II wrote:
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What Raskin did was add the "Leap" keys. If you held down the left
"Leap" key and typed "T" the cursor would jump forward to the first
entry that began with that letter. If you held down the "Leap" key and
kept typing so you'd done a "TA" the cursor would leap to "Table." If
you typed "TAL" it would jump to Tall, "TALLE" would jump to the first
example of, say, Tallequah. The right "Leap" key jumped backwards in
the document. It's the simplest and fastest way of navigating around a
document that I've ever used or seen.
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Anyone else here a fan of 'vim'? Type "/" and what you're looking for. With incremental search turned on it not only moves to the first instance, but highlights it, and all others while you type (and does regular expressions too). There are many shortcuts (perhaps too many) like this for moving around in text. Jef was right that too many people fixate on the mouse and that GUIs today are stuck in a deep rut. Will be looking into his 'THE' a little more. Interesting guy, too bad about his passing.
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