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Chapter 22 - A chimp will help Juula prove that Text Editing is CONNECTIVE

                   

THE STORY OF DEL - Delete

The machines went nuts: DLING-BLING-WAAAAAA! But this time, Juula nipped the reaction in the bud. "No, no, calm down!"
"Sorry."
"Del, honey, you just said the 'operative' word: 'LINK'."
LINK
"For zapping paragraphs, the pilcrow is a LINK and for zapping words, the space bar space is a LINK. The command for both is the same:

Look to the left of the cursor, see what's there, and then cancel rightward up to and including that same value.

The New Del?
YES!

'Connective reading' has been around a long time and everybody is familiar with it... It's called 'Browsing.' Well now we have 'Connective Editing.'
CONNECTIVE EDITING
And browsing and connective editing even have a few things in common. For instance, distance doesn’t matter. One touch zaps any paragraph no matter if composed of a single word or a thousand. So it's like a mouse click on a browser link: it doesn’t matter if the server is next door or in Kalamazoo Michigan."
"This is all new, right? I mean until now deletion always involved selection."
"Yes, congratulations, you and I have just reinvented text editing! No more selection for deletion. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. There's a whole lot more. You won't believe what else our little paragraph and word zapper can do to make editing on a phone or a tablet snappier than what's normal on a computer. Are you ready for the big adventure? Tonight we're gonna sneak out of here and visit the local zoo where a monkey will illustrate a key concept of text editing."
"Am I hearing this correctly?"
"Yes. We have an appointment with the mostly herbivorous Miss Pilù."
Enamored beyond words, Del could only murmur: 'Juula, I wish I had known you were so crazy right away!'
And at the blink of an eye, a joyfully mischievous chimpanzee flew into Del's arms and started tugging his earlobes and kissing him on the cheeks.

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