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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Message-ID: <6140@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 2 Sep 88 13:37:51 GMT
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4477@mtgzz.att.com> <371@polyof.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: HASA, "S" Division
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In article <371@polyof.UUCP> john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:
>I'm curious to know: do you folks who tolerate "invisible" type-ahead
>ever make mistakes in typing commands (ahead)?  If so, when do you detect
>the mistakes?  Before it's too late?  How do you see what you are correcting?

i touch type.  generally i know that i have made a mistake before i even
see what i have typed.  i don't even know what i am correcting when i
correct, just that i have typed some wrong character (like the d in
typed just now, i typed a space (and did it again just there ;-) and then
went back and corrected it to be a d)  my question has always been: how
many programmers, etc, touch type?
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

    "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
                -- Norm Schryer