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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bm in Less ?
Message-ID: <709@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 00:26:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 25 00:26:20 1987
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In article <806@nrcvax.UUCP>, chris@nrcvax.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) writes:
> amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit) says:
>> Less's Search mode is excruciatingly slow, compared to bm and
>> derivatives.  Has anyone incorporated the faster search into their
>> less/prim.c file?

> By 'bm' I assume you mean the Boyer-Moore grep utility.  When was the
> last time instead of typing 'bm pattern *.c' you typed 'rm pattern
> *.c'?

What does that have to do with putting bm's algorithm into less to do
the searching?

As for your actual question, "never" (:-).  I feel it's a non-issue.
The b and r keys are simply too far apart to cause trouble.  On a
QWERTY keyboard at least, and since you didn't say, I assume that's
what you have -- it's certainly what most people have.

					der Mouse

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