What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987

Posted by krying_krab on Sunday August 16, 2009 @03:49AM
from the video.google.com dept.

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

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Re:What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987 by ghshephard on Sunday August 16, 2009 @06:55AM (#765961)

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 .

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Re:What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987 by teilo on Monday August 17, 2009 @05:32PM (#769157)

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.

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Re:What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987 by krying_krab on Sunday August 16, 2009 @05:18PM (#766768)

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

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