_Populate_ > computer jargon, "make non-empty"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I myself have been populating computer fields for about three decades.

DanG

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "The ... GUI of an AU plug-in would be[come] empty [as a consequence
> of action A].
> In such a case, the GUI should be automatically _populated_."
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