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Re:Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again by jodrellblank on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:11AM (#29376630)
I could have sworn I saw a dropdown command/search dialog designed by Jeff Raskin as part of The Humane Interface, and demonstrated in PyTHE a Python imeplementation of it.

Can't find any evidence of it, but I can find a 2003 Guido van Rossum review of Jeff Raskin's book "The Humane Interface" in which Raskin mentions LEAP(r) a design for adding search-backwards and search-forwards keys below the spacebar to save people from arrow keys and mouse use, which is demonstrated on the CanonCat computer from 1987 in this[2] video on YouTube.

[1] https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4790

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c

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Re:Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again by kragen on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:27PM (#29384816)
Right, The Humane Environment, following on his work with the Canon Cat and the Macintosh, before Steve Jobs took over the project and made it into a better Lisa. Later they renamed THE to the more googlable "Archy", a pun on RCHI, the Raskin Center for the Humane Interface, shortly before Jef's surprising death from pancreatic cancer. Jef's son Aza unfortunately hasn't kept Jef's stuff online, and he also invented infinite scroll websites. Nice guy though.

LEAP was Emacs incremental-search, but on the Cat the idea was to use it to replace all cursor movement except "creep" left and right arrows.

Thanks for the video! I had never seen it. YT suggested https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jErqdRE5zpQ, another Cat video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZomNp9TyPY shows a brief clip of the Forth interpreter.

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Re:Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again by randkyp on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:11AM (#29377475)
"A search is either incremental or excremental."

- Jef Raskin

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Re:Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again by mushiake on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:26AM (#29379608)
maybe Archy[1] you thinking about?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software)

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