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Article #1613Re: jumping around the library
From: David M. Todd
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1993 19:08
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1993 19:08
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In article <jratliff-020993104001@econ179.bpa.arizona.edu>, >> 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. Personally, I'd rather have a cancel key (ESC?) for when I change my mind and able to type right to a reference than to have to type quickly to hope to get in the right neighborhood. |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David M. Todd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| |Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA| |Phone: 413/545-0158 ___ <David.Todd@Psych.UMass.EDU> ____ Fax: 413/545-0996|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107cb9,19c5165e966afa6e X-Google-Attributes: gid107cb9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-09-02 12:33:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!eddie.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!not-for-mail From: dtodd@titan.ucs.umass.edu (David M. Todd) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.endnote Subject: Re: jumping around the library Date: 2 Sep 1993 15:08:03 -0400 Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 21 Message-ID: <265gaj$t7i@titan.ucs.umass.edu> References: <199309021153.AA00922@tsf.laas.fr> <26596i$jne@titan.ucs.umass.edu> <jratliff-020993104001@econ179.bpa.arizona.edu> Reply-To: David.Todd@Psych.UMass.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu