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Re: jumping around the library

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From: Jim Ratliff
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1993 18:40
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In article <26596i$jne@titan.ucs.umass.edu>, dtodd@titan.ucs.umass.edu
(David M. Todd) wrote:

> In article <199309021153.AA00922@tsf.laas.fr>,
> David Powell  <David.Powell@LAAS.FR> wrote:
> >
> >Try typing "sm" faster - I think the functionality you want is
> >already there.
> 
> Yes it is there, but if you skip a beat (on a 486) you often end up
> somewhere you don't want to be.  I'd rather see a true type-to
> function where you don't have to type it just right and super fast to
> make it work.

But the drawback of your suggestion is that: say you want to go to the
"s"'s, so you type an "s", then you change your mind and want to go to the
"m"'s. In your system, that would take you to the "sm"'s instead. You'd
have to add a way to cancel your request in your system. The present system
is self cancelling if you wait long enough. 
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 \_|IM RATLIFF
   Dept. of Economics
   University of Arizona
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From: jratliff@bpavms.bpa.arizona.edu (Jim Ratliff)
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Subject: Re: jumping around the library
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