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From: chris@nrcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bm in Less ?
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 02:09:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 02:09:31 1987
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Reply-To: chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad)
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mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) says:
>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?

I wasn't suggesting that either had anything to do with the other.

>
>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.
>

As I said in another posting, I don't think the issue is that of mis-typing
but really mis-thinking.  I think it could happen on either a qwerty or
Dvorak keyboard.  The problem as I see it is that mostly I don't think about
the keys that I am typing, but when I think some pattern, my fingers type
that pattern.  Most of the time.  Except in the case of when I want to
type something that is real similar to what I type often.  Like rm instead
of bm.  I guess after some thought, it might be said that it really is an issue
of mis-typing and not mis-thinking (certainly not in the sense that people seem
to have taken it), because I have correctly thought the action.  I have noticed
that this happens most often when I get real tired, as if I have put my fingers
on autopilot.

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