Micro-EMACS 3.7i -- bugs and comments
Greg Franks
(from net.micro.atari16)
>[So you thought there were no bugs left, eh?]
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>Hi... uEmacs 3.7i works and is wonderful. But, as always, we unsatisfied
>users want more! Here are 5 bugs and 3 suggestions which I would appreciate
>your help with:
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>2b. Using ESC to delimit search strings is silly. If you really don't want
>to use RETURN, why not use ENTER? Better still, I would suggest using
>RETURN, and making ^J insert a ^J in the search string, and ^M a ^M. That
>way you can use ^J to get a NL in the search string (since ^J is a NL), and
>RETURN can still delimit the search string which is makes more sense since I
>think it's more intuitive. In fact, I usually use control-RETURN to delimit
>search strings since it is faster to type ^S-^RETURN when you want to repeat
>a search than ^S-RETURN
The search terminators should be bindable (like the meta key). I have
to type ^3 (control-3) on my vt220 terminal for <escape> right now :-(.
I would rather bind the terminator to something else (like FN^N). (I use
sys V curses, so I can get 10 function keys and the cursor keys - .emacsrc
takes care of the rest).
We in terminal land don't have control-return, so I don't think it
should be used as a terminator. I bind the function "hunt-forward" to a
function key (1 keystroke instead of 2 or 3). (The backwards function is
"hunt-backward" (Before flaming, see item 4. - he can't RTFM)).
>4. Is there documentation available for 3.7i? I was thinking of the syntax
>of regular expressions in particular, but a brief description of each
>function and customizable flags would be nice too.
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Regular expressions! Gee - I wish - but then again, I only have 3.7 (from
mod.sources). Can I get sources (I suspect search.c is all that's needed)?
Better yet, could the pattern matching stuff goto either net.sources or
mod.sources?
Happy hacking!
Greg Franks