Re: Incremental search as InputServer
Re: Incremental search as InputServer
- Subject: Re: Incremental search as InputServer
- From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:07:37 -0500
- Mail-followup-to: David Remahl <email@hidden>, email@hidden
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:59:03AM +0200, David Remahl wrote:
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Has anyone thought of implementing "incremental search", as it works in
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emacs, in Cocoa text fields / views using an input manager? Is it
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feasible? From looking at the scarce documentation available on input
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managers (including the HexInputServer example) it looks like all the
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required pieces are there.
Michael McCracken and I have written one, as an extension for TextExtras.
Let me know if you want a copy - I've been using it for months without
problems.
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Do carbon input managers have the same power, or are they strictly for
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input?
Carbon input methods do not have the same power. Trying to get them
to do anything else is very painful, as I discovered with my VimIM
hack last year. :)
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Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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