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What Comes After the Mouse, Circa 1987 (video.google.com)
3 points by krying_krab 6145 days ago
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I'll summarize for those who don't want to actually watch the entire 17 1/2 minute video (the last six minutes of which consist of a Piano Rendition with the word "LEAP (R)" on the screen)

   A keyboard with two keys dedicated to CMD-F, CMD-Shift-G .
Wow. Talk about over-engineering. This was a software problem, not a hardware problem, solved about ten years prior to 1987 by vi:

/ search string

? search string

n to repeat

No thumbs needed.

The idea is very similar to Firefox's incremental search (and for that matter, even more similar to Emacs C-s and C-r).