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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Stephane Payrard wrote:

> Perspective: this is an early feedback from someone that has used
> texmacs for only 3 hours or so but has used emacs for years.
> So I can miss the obvious, but a naive feeback can always be useful :)
> 
> 1/ TeXmacs has a session mechanism in which I can run sucessfully an
> interactive shell but a command started by the said shell does not get
> the input from the keyboard as it should.
> By comparaison, a interactive shell in emacs works correctly.

Yes, I know. The problem that shells have no proper mechanism for
handshaking (saying who is waiting for input). I am still thinking
about how I may deal with this problem inside TeXmacs.
 
> 2/ Also, is it possible to get the keyboard accelerators displayed in the
> menu? This is the best way to progressively move from mixed input
> (mouse+keyboard) to a faster keyboard input mode (à la emacs).

The keyboard accelerators are displayed as help balloons.
I found it often very ugly to have them inside the menus,
but I may rechange my mind and implement better alignment
for the shorthands than was previously the case.

> 3/ Your documentation should be hyperlinked so that a complete
>   beginner like me can move around more easily in the documentation before
>   getting his way in the menus.

I have been projecting to do this, but I had no time yet.

> 4/ Telated to 3/
>    I don't get the different meaning of the different links that can
>    be created from (Insert->Links). Admittedly I have not yet searched
>    very hard.

Well, some are links, others are references,
soon we will have things to put into the index, etc.

> 5/ Eventually it should be nice to be able to split a window in many panels
>    (In emacs parlance that would be to split a frame in many windows) but 
> without
>    the emacs bug: emacs does not always display the buffer in the right 
> window (in emacs speak: frame)
>    when  the said buffer already appears within another window (in emacs 
> speak:frame).
>    Bug triggered by ^X^B when the "*Buffer List*"already opend in another 
> windows (in emacs frame).
>    I am not asking you to correct the bug in emacs!! just point out this is 
> not easy to implement
>    right.

Yes, but this will be for later.

> 6/ I  consider A providing a Perl binding to TexMacs.

Yes please do so.

>    What are the functions that should be provided first besides
>    something like bind-key for remapping the keyboard?

What would you think to be most useful?

> Thank you for this very promising tool and for your attention.

Thanks for your kind reaction.

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Joris van der Hoeven (address@hidden)
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