[plt-scheme] Interacting w/ MzScheme

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 14 12:01:00 EST 2004

At 14 Dec 2004 11:55:27 -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>   For list-related administrative tasks:
>   http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
> 
> 
> Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> > - incremental search,
> >    done if you know the keystrokes
> >    not as lightweight as emacs
> 
> Wait.  If the search does not take place as you type characters into
> the search string, then it's not incremental.  That's the whole
> meaning of the term.
> 
> This has nothing to do with keyboard shortcuts.  Even if you had to
> use a mouse gesture to get things started, it would still be
> incremental.
> 
> (I've downloaded and built the latest DrScheme, and I didn't see the
> behavior I describe, following the instructions Robby posted.  Am I
> missing something?)

You must have missed the message about docking. I didn't mention it
myself, but someone did. The docked version of the search window is
incremental.

Still not quite Emacs's search, tho.

Robby



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