Re: Total recall undo and redo!

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Hi.  I was wondering: have you ever done anything with rk?  I use it every
day and love it.  But I would like to improve its performance and accuracy in
prediction.  (I have the book and have been going through it.)

Thanks.

 > From: Scott Schwartz <http://www.galapagos.cse.psu.edu/~schwartz>
 > To: http://www.interstice.com/~inferno
 >
 > Porttikiven Anssi <http://www.research.nokia.com/~anssi.porttikivi> writes:
 > | While I am at it, how about this: a keyboard driver which can recall any
 > | previous "word" or a "phrase" by the user typing its first characters,
 > | across user sessions?
 > 
 > It's been done.  Darragh's "rk" builds a trie of events, and predicts
 > your next keystroke.  Remarkably effective.  The (somewhat crufty) code
 > used to be available by anon-ftp.
 > 
 > The reactive keyboard
 > Darragh, John J.
 >     The reactive keyboard. / John J. Darragh, Ian H. Witten. Cambridge
 >   [England]; New York, NY, USA, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
 >     xi, 186 p. ill. 26 cm.
 >     Series: Cambridge series on human-computer interaction, 5.
 >     Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-181) and index.
 >     1. Human-computer interaction. 2. Electronic data processing -- 
 >   Keyboarding.
 >  Call#: QA76.9.H85D37 1992