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Re: Incremental search as InputServer
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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:
> Has anyone thought of implementing "incremental search", as it works in
> emacs, in Cocoa text fields / views using an input manager? Is it
> feasible? From looking at the scarce documentation available on input
> managers (including the HexInputServer example) it looks like all the
> 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.

> Do carbon input managers have the same power, or are they strictly for
> 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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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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