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A heuristic, depth-first search of the graph was found superior to a classical, breadth-first search.","The editing of thirty users--ten on each of three editors--was collected by monitoring all terminal input and output. Thus, all of the data was from real life text editing, not from a laboratory experiment. The data was divided into a derivation and a validation data set. The ten different users' problems in the derivation data were solved with the constrained optimal model. Keystrokes in excess of this solution were categorized as feedback requests, inappropriate command selection, or human error. These categories were iteratively refined and then frozen for analysis of the validation data.","The model--a constrained optimal solution plus the descriptive categories--explained 85 to 95% of the keystrokes in both data sets. 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