Re: Another GMC suggestion/request

[Bob Taylor <brtaylor inreach com>]

In message <19990401213401.A19032@audrey>, Matthias Warkus writes:
> +++ Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 08:46:46PM +0100 +++
> Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply 
>right now, after the break.

[snip]

> > Also, one guy proposed the one key hit and other the write a word. In
> > Windows if you hit a key, wait, hit another it jumps from one file to
> > another, but if hit keys fast (word) it will try to find the file which
> > matches. Example having "abc" "acb" and "cba" if 'a' 'wait' 'c' you end in
> > "cab" but if 'a' then 'c' you end in "acb" (always passing by "abc").
> 
> I see. This is a way to do it, for sure. Anyway I like the C-s
> approach better because it equals the way I search for a string in a
> document.

Please! Do not consider the MS way. Consider getting interupted after
one or two keystrokes. Yuck! A standard incremental search with an
option for a full regexp search maybe?

Bob

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