Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site mit-prep.ARPA
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!mit-prep!tmb
From: tmb@mit-prep.ARPA (Thomas M. Breuel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: 1.1/1.2 Console Driver Bug...
Message-ID: <45@mit-prep.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 03:49:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-prep.45
Posted: Tue Jun 24 03:49:13 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Jun-86 07:29:33 EDT
Distribution: net
Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 21

I recently had a chance to play around with 1.2beta. Many nice
and useful features have been added. It annoyed me a bit, though,
that Commodore put their copyright on the public domain version
of MicroEMACS. I find this rather tasteless. Fortunately, their
version doesn't seem to be any better than v30 with intuition
driver.

A complaint that I have about the 1.1 and 1.2 console drivers is
that their handling of <Backspace> is rather simple minded and that
control characters are not echoed. If you type a line containing
a control character and backspace over it (or cancel it with ^X),
the cursor moves back too far. If you type a line containing a TAB
character, deleting the TAB with backspace won't move the cursor
back to the correct position.

This BUG is so obvious, looks so dilettantish, and is so easy to
fix that I was assuming that it would be fixed in 1.2. It isn't.
I am particularly bothered by it since I use a line oriented editor
in cooked mode. Please fix it.

						Thomas.