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Re: jumping around the library

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From: David M. Todd
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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From: dtodd@titan.ucs.umass.edu (David M. Todd)
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Subject: Re: jumping around the library
Date: 2 Sep 1993 15:08:03 -0400
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