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30 years of GNU

30 years of GNU

Posted Oct 4, 2013 22:47 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: 30 years of GNU by khim
Parent article: 30 years of GNU

> And of course TAB always meant “smart completion”. Only usually it was less “smart” than it is today.

Which means it Just Worked.

I did not realize this was called "smart completion". Now I completely understand the connection with Microsoft Word where the very first required is to immediately disable all the so-called "smart" features ("smart" quotes, "smart" initials, "smart" selection,...) in order to be allowed to type anything unusual that Microsoft did not expect.

Exactly the same kind of "smartness".


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