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Hi, everybody ...

Upon starting using TeXmacs after several years of inactivity, I ran into 
several problems and wondered whether there were solutions available which 
were due to lack of documentation not to be found.  Or simply because I was 
too dumb to find them ;-)

1. I want to have an enumeration which looks like this:

        a)-c) see above
        d) blah
        e) bloh

   The way I figured to do this was to tell the second item in the
   enumeration that its value shall be "d)".  (I think there was a
   way to do this in LaTeX.)  But I found neither info to this
   approach nor any other way.

2. My version of TeXmacs segfaults when I close the help buffer to
   return to my document.  I'm using Fedora 7 (moonshine) and TeXmacs
   version 1.0.6.12.  Too old a TeXmacs?

3. The autosave feature is set to 120 seconds on my TeXmacs, but where
   does it save an unnamed document?  I didn't find it after the crash
   mentioned above.

4. This next one is rather annoying.
   Upon trying to save a new document (just after opening TeXmacs), it
   asks me for the name in the status bar (fine, I'm used to Emacs).
   But it does not offer the standard suffix, so I left it away (I had
   no idea which suffix to use) and chose a name without a suffix,
   assuming TeXmacs might then add its standard suffix.
   Then I wanted to close the TeXmacs window, but it told me that my
   document wasn't saved.  I hesitated, aborted closing the program,
   pressed save again, was again asked for a file name.  I entered my
   former choice again, somehow wondering why the first time it didn't
   work.  Upon leaving TeXmacs, I was asked *again* to save my document
   before leaving.  I frowned and left TeXmacs by use of the IT version
   of a shotgun.  Then I started it again, loaded my saved document and
   had a version without any formatting.  Wonderful.

   I now understand what had happened, but I still wonder how the user
   should have been able to guess the standard suffix ".tm".

   And:  Don't you think that TeXmacs should ask whether I want to
   overwrite an existing file??

5. Having my document already written in another application, I wanted
   to copy/paste the contents, maybe paragraph by paragraph or section
   by section, if possible.  Unfortunately I had lots of XML tags in my
   text, so now and then a word was written in angled brackets.  These
   were pasted as special stuff (red/blue) I had no way to revert them
   to normal text.

   Is there an easy way to paste text verbatim?  Please don't tell me
   the only way is to hangle down in the menues to
   edit->pastefrom->verbatim which is rather cumbersome, especially
   when having to do it for dozens of paragraphs)?

   Or is there a way to convert those funny blue-red, non-editable
   versions of pasted XML tags into normal text?

6. I wanted to give all XML tags I was using the attribute "code*", so
   I marked a plain text tag and then selected Text->ContentTag->code.
   Later, I found the way to type "\code*[Return]" after marking the
   tag.  Both ways aren't very fast.  I wanted to place that feature on
   a key, maybe on F7 (instead of 'verbatim' which I do not need, at
   least not right now in this document).  So I looked in the docu and
   was lead to look at the dir
   /usr/share/TeXmacs/progs/texmacs/keyboard/.  Unfortunately, nothing
   there (in spite of your promises in the TeXmacs manual) describes
   why F7 produces the feature of "verbatimizing" the text ('grep -i
   verbatim *' produces no output), nor does anything describe what F7
   shall do ('grep -i f7 *' only displays stuff like
   '("math:cal" "F7" #t)' which does not seem to be the entry for the
   verbatim stuff.

   Can you tell me where F7 is bound to verbatim?

   Or, even better, how can I bind F7 to "code*"?  ;-)

7. Is there a keyboard macro feature in TeXmacs, so I can simply enter
   a bunch of key strokes and later replay them by pressing one simple
   key?

Thanks for your time!

Alfe