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HandyFind: A faster, friendlier way to find words
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History
Being able to find words as you type has been a popular feature in editors used by software programmers for a long time. The feature usually goes by the name "Incremental Search". The initial idea and implementation was done circa 1974 by researchers at MIT and later included in the popular word processor named "EMACS" (Richard Stallman, 1979). Recently, this feature has become more widespread and is sometimes referred to as Find As You Type, Search As You Type, Type Ahead, or Word-Wheeling. The claim that incremental search and LEAPing should be a fundamental part of making software easier to use was argued by Jef Raskin in his excellent book "The Humane Interface".
The idea of showing the search status at the same location as the found text (thus helping the user to locate the found text as well as putting the search status at the user's locus of attention) was the invention of Edwin Evans. HandyFind's implemention of incremental search on top of Microsoft Windows and programs written for Windows was the creation of Edwin Evans.
Marc Richarme, Mark Bozeman, PJ Naugter, Igor Tandetnik, Jef Raskin, Chris Maunder, Jordan Russell (for the excellent Inno Setup installer), Jeff Partch, Patrick Philippot, Jakob Bieling, Alfred Kroll, Mike Frith, James White, Robert Reimann, Gavin Lambert, Alan Cooper, Bernard Greenberg (for providing historical information on incremental search), the creators of the Boost template library, David Evans, Leonard Evans, and Wendy Evans.
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- Santa Clara CA
- United States 95054
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- +1 (408) 986-0299
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