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		bee_rider on May 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elvish, expressive programming language and a vers... The directory history idea seems incredibly useful, but I’ve never see of it before. Did you come up with it yourself? It has the characteristics of a really great idea: seems obvious in retrospect, doesn’t look too difficult to implement, but somehow everybody seems to have… just missed it?

xiaq on May 10, 2024 [–]

It was inspired by browsers' location bar - the name (location mode) and the default ^L binding are a nod to browsers too.

These days browsers will often suggest results from search engines but back then (at least in Firefox?) it was just history and bookmarks.

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