🚀 go-pugleaf

[So you thought there were no bugs left, eh?]

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:

1.  It looks like ^U  (control-U)  still  isn't  bindable  in  3.7i.   I  can
BIND-TO-KEY something to ^U, and DESCRIBE-KEY shows ^U as being bound to this
new thing, but hitting ^U still does an ARG (i.e., I get  4  in  the  command
line,  then 16,  etc.).  I suspect ^U is hardwired into the code at the point
where ARG is done, along with the ESC-number sequence.

2a.  I'm not sure you'd agree this is  a  bug,  but  I  think  it  is.   When
searching for something, hitting ^J, ^M or RETURN in  the  command  line  (in
response to the STRING: prompt) all result  in  <NL>  becoming  part  of  the
search string (even if I precede it with a ^Q).  How, then, can I search  for
or replace a ^M or a ^J?  (Some Kermits, for example, insert spurious ^M's at
the end of each line, which one may want to replace.)

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  (you don't have to lift your finger off  the control
key in the former).   I would suggest using  RETURN  and  ^RETURN  to delimit
search strings.   If you have ^Q, you can always type ^Q-RETURN anyway to get
a NL, though with ^M and ^J you really shouldn't need  to.   Hitting  ESC  to
delimit the string is inconvenient.

3.  There should be a way to turn off the  BIND-TO-KEY  echoing  when  uEmacs
reads in the EMACS.RC file.

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.

5.  I can't bind ABORT-COMMAND to anything (say, ^G) in  the  EMACS.RC  file.
It doesn't bomb;  it just doesn't do anything.   But  if  I type  BIND-TO-KEY
ABORT-COMMAND ^G using ESC-X once I'm in Emacs, the binding does go  through,
even though the exact same line in EMACS.RC does nothing.

6.  The SHELL COMMAND function restores HIREZ mode even if  I  start  out  in
MEDREZ mode.  uEmacs still thinks there are 24 lines, however,  so  I  get  a
screen  that's  scrunched up towards the top.  (What does the SHELL escape do
anyway?  What commands does it (and FILTER-REGION) recognize?)

7.  uEmacs should provide command completion in the add/delete-mode commands.
It's a pain to type out the name of the mode in full.

8.  How do I get mouse movement to move my cursor?  All I get when I move the
mouse are various unbound-key or undefined-macro error messages.

In summary:

bug   -- 1.  ^U isn't bindable.
bug   -- 2a. Can't search for ^M and ^J.
sugg  -- 2b. Inconvenient and unnecessary to use ESC for delimiting strings.
sugg  -- 3.  Should be able to turn off BIND-TO-KEY echoing.
query -- 4.  Documentation?
bug   -- 5.  Can't bind ABORT-COMMAND.
bug   -- 6.  SHELL restores HIREZ.
sugg  -- 7.  Command completion for mode names.
bug   -- 8.  Mouse movement doesn't move cursor.

That's about all for now (I'm sure I'll think of more later!)  Not to detract
from your program though -- I think you guys have done an amazing job.   3.7i
is definitely and by far the best editor I've used on *any* micro.

Cheers -- Ashwin.

ARPA:    Ram-Ashwin@yale
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