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From: peterson@utah-cs.UUCP (John W Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Re: AEGIS/UN*X [really, DM/Emacs]
Message-ID: <4652@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 12:02:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.4652
Posted: Thu Jun 18 12:02:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 13:03:27 EDT
References: <8706172048.AA05536@yale-celray.arpa>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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>> 
>>> I'd be happy to list some others -- no incremental search, repeat search
>>> gets screwed up if any other macros use search (e.g., delete word),
>>> window jumps around madly if you try to balance a paren that's off the
>>> current window region, can't undo undoes, filename completion, ... .
>> 
>> I agree with all your wishes.  I've been pining for word wrap and a search
>> stack since I came here.
>> 
>> For gosh sakes man, submit ucr's!  Read crucr.hlp to see how to submit them
>> over the network -- you can't ask for more convenience.  
> 
> Does submitting a UCR make the difference between a "wishlist-bug" and a 
> real bug (whatever that is)?  Are UCRs only for real bugs?  What do we do 
> with genuine wishlist-bugs then?
> 

After seeing this message, I dug through my file of UCR's.
I sent a UCR complaining about several lossages in the DM (poor
customizability, no extensibility, no right margin, cryptic interface,
etc.)  I sent it in April of 1985.  I got a response of "...yeah, we'll
look into that."  Two years later all the deficiencies are still there.

Moral: Use emacs and/or the X window system.

ps -

I don't know if it's the same thing, but I wrote a filename completion
package for the shell (which Yale further modified).  I'm pretty sure
there's a copy on the ADUS tape, and I think it's also in the UCLA
archive.

pps -

Although it's not real word wrap, I came up with the following hacks
to fill paragraphs in the DM:

   kd f1 [,76];\ \;ed;en;tr ke
   kd f1s ed;es ' ' ke

Press F1 to wrap a line that's too long, and press shift-F1 to join a
line that's too short (you must be at the end of the short line).  You
can alternate between the two to quickly clean up a paragraph.