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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Jonathan King wrote:
> And then it has some mind-bogglingly useful new features. A trivial one
> is "Export:" That allows you to (wait for it...) export a file or a
> selection from a file into any reasonable format plus a few others just
> for fun; this is *huge*).
You mean like MS Word or WordPerfect formats? That is a nice feature.
> But not as big as Preview's "find" command. It's now both incremental,
> and document-wide. So if I type "prefrontal" in the find box, it goes
> to the first one, but shows (in a menu) all of the other hits *in
> context* and *in real time* so I can immediately go to the one I really
> want, or tweak my search, or copy that result and search for it in all
> other open documents...
Cool - we need more of that. I hope other programs pick up on it. So I
hope they haven't patented it!!
> I could go on, but I seriously suggest that anybody who hasn't played
> with the new system go at least take a look, if only so you can see what
> features should be stolen for use in Linux.
We are allowed to 'steal' them, right? Patent law has gotten weird
lately. I hope it doesn't get in the way.
You're really making me want a Mac!!
Best,
Mike
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