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Element 27

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F
Find

Look for this inside my work.

⌘F · find and replace

First known

From a history

1962TECO (Dan Murphy, MIT PDP-1): commands search for text where you want to change it.

See also: Thompson's regular-expression search in QED, 1968 (unverified).

Late 1962, per Murphy's 2009 history; an interactive mode came early on.

Dated by a reputable history or a participant's own account. The source.

  • ReadingValue

Specimen № 27 — operate freely

Make it Gran, not Nan. Then read what Replace all did.

Fig. 27 — Find

000 readings · idle

Down the Find column

  1. it remembersFFind
  2. it connectsSrSearch
  3. it guessesRdRecommend
  4. it actsRhResearch

Read down and Find gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Find takes.

  • ⌘F
  • find and replace