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From: wand@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU (Mitchell Wand)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Who invented `dabbrev-expand'?
Summary: Recent CACM article seems to have reinvented it
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Date: 6 Feb 91 19:54:18 GMT
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Not enough people know about dabbrev-expand.  Oddly enough, there was a long
article in the November, 1990, IEEE Computer, about something called the
Reactive Keyboard, in which the authors seem to have reinvented it for use in
the shell.  They went on about how this was great, particularly for
handicapped persons, but did not reference emacs at all.

Let's hope they find about emacs and TECO when they do the patent search :-)