The MatchTool: An Introduction to Graphical Search and Replace. Eric Bier and David Kurlander. Xerox PARC. 1988. Duration: 6:42.
Graphical search and replace is a technique for making coherent changes throughout a graphical illustration. Objects matching a user-specified set of graphical properties (including shape) are automatically matched. Individual graphical properties in the matched objects are then replaced (possibly including shape as well). Graphical search and replace was first implemented as the MatchTool, a utility for Xerox PARC's Gargoyle graphical editor. It later was implemented in Matchtool 2 for the Chimera editor.
In 1988, this video was created as a companion piece for the following SIGGRAPH paper: