From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: History of incremental searching Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 19:23:16 GMT 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084823782 9736 80.91.224.253 (17 May 2004 19:56:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 19:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 17 21:56:17 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 1BPoDh-0000sV-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 21:56:17 +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 1BPnqm-0008KE-1M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 15:32:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.84 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1084821796 132.204.24.84 (Mon, 17 May 2004 15:23:16 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:23:16 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123234 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:18530 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18530 > The only similar thing I've seen in commercial software is in Mac OS X's > "Console" application, which is used for viewing log files. It has a It has actually finally made it to the non-Emacs world a few yeas ago under the name "type ahead find" or something like that. Mozilla (and derivatives) has it, for example. As for incremental-occur, I'm still waiting for a gnu.emacs.sources submission. Stefan