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Comment on: Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
Apologies for bringing vi into it but wouldn't the vi / or ? search be even closer? put your search in then hit n to repeat.I think the real genius of the interface is reducing it down to a set of dedicated keys that always work. It is hard to explain how good an interface feels if you can get it down to one action. The closest common analog I can think of is the X11 single click paste. When you spell it out "well, copy/paste changes from [select, ctl+c, click, ctl+v] to [select, click]" it does not sound like much. But It flows so much better and I have to admit I get all sorts of grumpy when