greg@xios.UUCP (Greg Franks) (10/30/86)
In article <8610221417.AA09421@Yale-Bulldog.YALE.ARPA> ram@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram) writes: (from net.micro.atari16) >[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: > > >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. > 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