Just come from another group where it was suggested that Microsoft invented the term 'word wheel', 'word-wheel' or wordwheel' to describe an on-screen database search interface as described at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/word-wheeling . Does anyone know when and where the term first appeared? Noel
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org/wiki/word-wheeling . [/nq] I think it has also been used to describe what others call a wordsnake. com **
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[nq:1]Just come from another group where it was suggested that Microsoft invented the term 'word wheel', 'word-wheel' or wordwheel' to describe an on-screen database search interface as described at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/word-wheeling . Does anyone know when and where the term first appeared?[/nq]
15:46, sabato 3 maggio 2008, Nickel : [nq:2]Just come from another group where it was suggested that ... Does anyone know when and where the term first appeared?[/nq] [nq:1]I think it has also been used to describe what others call a wordsnake.[/nq] In the Unix/Linux world there is something like that called "incremental-search".