Misbehavior in Jove

[Tim Iverson]

In article <5584 at xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent at cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>In article <8181 at ihlpa.ATT.COM> sft at ihlpa.ATT.COM (Scott Thompson) writes:
>>From article <212 at isl.stanford.edu>, by wongpw at isl.Stanford.EDU (Ping Wah Wong):
>>> middle of a word, e.g., middle, the command case-word-capitalize would
>>>                            ^
>>>                            |
>>>                       cursor position
>>
>>This is not a bug.  Every version of emacs I have ever used, performs
>>this function in the exact same way.  Maybe a macro to find the begining
>>of the current word before capitalization is what you really want?

>Hmmm.  I've seen two notes now claiming this isn't a bug.  OK.  Let's
>call it a horrid human factors design flaw instead, then.

I've used Jove for over five years and you're the first person that I've
heard complain of this - it could be that it's not a *human* factors
design issue, but a *Kent* factors design issue.  One person does not
comprise an entire race - unless perhaps he lives in a fantasy world
(hmm, "man from xanth"? :-).

At any rate, I'm glad it does start in the middle, which is the manner
in which I use this feature most often.

>While we're speaking of design flaws, why in the world does ^N insert
>newlines at the end of a file, when the return key is available for
>that job?
>Kent, the man from xanth.

It doesn't - at least not in any of the distributed versions (or the
others that I know of).  However, if you didn't set the key bindings
yourself, it is quite possible that someone has set the default binding
of ^N to "newline" instead of "next-line", especialy if someone had
already hand tailored it.


- Tim Iverson
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