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From: simsong@daily-bugle.media.mit.edu (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: bugs in 2.0
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Date: 2 Jan 91 21:10:42 GMT
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Here's a list that I've made of the bugs in 2.0:

Problems with EMACS:
* .m extension doesn't automatically select C-mode anymore.

Problems with Webster:
* No iconify or close buttons (close should terminate application)
* Doesn't have autohide option for autolaunch.

Problems with Mail:
* Should support the .mailrc file.  Or at least aliases; so I can send
  mail to "kwh" and have it automatically expanded to "kwh@amt.mit.edu"
  without having to mouse a half-a-dozen things.
* Should remember which addresses take NeXT mail and which don't.
* Summary matrix of articles should take FirstMouse.

Problems with Workspace:
* When new icons get created in the lower-right, they should be
created as down and as right as possible.  Right now, it seems to
count across each time a new app is created.  But if I delete a
running app, it doesn't reclaim the space  until it has gone all the
way around...
* NeXT still doesn't have a screensaver...


Problems with Digital Librarian:
* 1.0 .index files breaks the indexer; it doesn't delete them, it just crashes.
* Doesn't have autohide option for autolaunch.
* Makes *another* directory in my home directory (~/Library), rather
  than putting bookshelves into the .NeXT directory.

Problems with Usermanager:
* Help screen says that there is a delete user option under the
  Windows menu, but there isn't.

Problems with Terminal:

        * esc prefix is not the same as meta
        * does not work properly with emacs.
                (in particular, scroll line up...)

Problems with EMACS & GDB:
        * meta-D / meta-U / meta-S / meta-N work if you type ESC-D,
          but if you type a real META-D (because you have a copy of
         Stuart that does the right thing), then you have to press the META-D
          twice.

Problems with Terminal:
        * Command-Q should ask you before it quits.
        * Regular VT100 emulation doesn't work properly with emacs.

Problems with Interface Builder:
        * If you close a nib file and have the Connections inspector out,
          you get trash in the Connections inspector

        * You can't add a .tiff or .eps image with a space in its name.

Typos in documentation:

in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes:

        The "- alloc" should be a "+ alloc"

/usr/include/appkit/Cursor.h:
        Should include "obsoleteBitmap.h", not "Bitmap.h"

Requests for Matrix:

        * matrix should have a SelectedCellCount method which returns the
          number of SelectedCells.