From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: History of incremental searching Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:28:00 -0400 Organization: Looking for work Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <80ca8c.pl.ln@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084814996 18320 80.91.224.253 (17 May 2004 17:29:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:29:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 17 19:29:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPlvv-0005CL-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:29:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPk84-00060Y-7J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:34:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!63.223.4.70!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:28:01 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.26.140 Original-X-Trace: sv3-brYC0+Gp51Z5FxQIwhLRppUiVsu+vwQZRyJEwqZA6TwO8NYLXPdQHW0Hnp0SRg5bd6dyKtOQ/3gHLDt!ojTbUJMv7pv8uoLD3YKfs4vyroRo2+3guK1lPVHUZTPAiEY+Ysb+pFLEOd02cwv27Pt4fURBsITL!Ry8tPyr+Z+E= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123226 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18524 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18524 In article <80ca8c.pl.ln@acm.acm>, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Just out of curiosity, does anybody here know the how, when, where and by > whom of incremental searching? > > When was it invented, and in which product? Did it arise first in Emacs? > Whose idea was it? It's been in Emacs since its original implementation on ITS at MIT, over 25 years ago. I don't know if this is where it originated, but there's a good chance, since EMACS was one of the first visual editors. > I think it is a truly remarkable idea, surely worthy of a p***nt (please > excuse my language here) if any software idea is. Well, if it were, the patent would have expired by now. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***