Posted by Adam Quinan on April 12, 2010 at 18:42:31 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: "pull left" and other puzzlements... posted by Ed Kiser on April 12, 2010 at 12:40:04:
I don't know where I first heard, thought or read of the double-tap for a dash, but I do know that when I first read Missee Lee, that is what I thought Captain Flint was doing, which takes it back to the early 1960s.
I may have picked it up from a teacher at school, some of them were former military men or perhaps from someone who was in the Boy Scouts. I honestly can't recall, I have just always known of it as a possible technique. You are right that it is a sharp double tap like double clicking a mouse button.