[climacs-devel] Couple of first impressions

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Hi,

here's a small list of things I'd like to see in Climacs to be more
newbie-friendly (i.e. making experimenting more convenient):

 * Making Isearch Forward (C-s) available in Help buffers.

 * Instead of always opening a new buffer, updating an already existing
   one. E.g when doing `C-h b', or `M-x Apropos Command' several times
   in a row.

 * Auto resizing Help buffers to minimum height.

 * Something like `toggle-debug-on-error': I.e. the facility to /not/
   automatically invoke the debugger when something bad happens. (Bonus
   point if the backtrace is saved in some special buffer.)

 * A tutorial (or, actually, Climacs Primer for Emacs boys) on `C-h t'

 * Making `C-h b' more pervasive. E.g. it doesn't work on the miniprompt
   (e.g. after simply typing `M-x'.)

 * To get a list of completion choices, you've got to right
   click. Better bind that to `TAB TAB'.


Bugs or glitches:

 * The Completion Choice popup is obnoxious. It's on top of everything
   else, and stays there. Even when I try to switch workspaces in Gnome.

 * Completing filenames in Find File (C-x f) doesn't recognize symlinks
   (i.e. does not complete for.) Although, strangely, it does recognize
   /broken/ symlinks.

 * Pressing `M-p' at the Find File, or the M-x prompt results in a
   NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD error.


Happy Hacking,

  -T.