Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: Who invented `dabbrev-expand'?
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.014238.5146@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 91 01:42:38 GMT
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wand@corwin.UUCP (Mitchell Wand) writes:
> 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.  [...]

I remember reading an article in 1983 or so about such an idea... I think it
was in an old edition of Machine Intelligence.  Old enough to use teletypes,
so that the savings were really worth-while.
I don't know how old the article was when I read it, though.

Lee

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