> Demo of the Canon Cat computer released in 1987 with 'leap' feature [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

> Demo of the Canon Cat computer released in 1987 with 'leap' feature [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423545 - Dec 2021 (1 comment) > Leap Technology (keyboard vs. mouse on a Canon Cat machine, ca 1987) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22042900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22042900 - Jan 2020 (1 comment) Wow, thanks! I did miss that story (same video in both HN discussions) which is very relevant to my interests. Watching the video, I find that the way I move around code in Emacs is very similar to the “Leap” technique in the Canon Cat, with exactly the benefits they claim. I even have a dedicated “Leap” thumb key in my keyboard, a programmable Dygma Raise (https://dygma.com/ https://dygma.com/) where I mapped one of the thumb keys to the “Find” keycode, and then that in Emacs to incremental search. It is still limited to the current buffer, whereas the Canon Cat’s Leap seems to work across documents. I hadn’t thought of that but there are ways to do it in Emacs, for instance searching interactively in all open buffers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641211/emacs-interactively-search-open-buffers https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641211/emacs-interactiv...