what -I- consider a bug in *cabe

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> > Don't suppose there's a way to set the default directory 
> for save/load 
> > to something other than the current file and have it "stick" [...]
> 
> No, too bad, a very good idea.  I am that lazy, too. Also, 
> while we are at it... and I have asked for this in many wish 
> list incarnations through the past... a tiny macro ability 
> for cabe would be great. It would be so nice to hit a macro 
> key and then a name? or character, and have the whole current 
> table saved to a file called "this_tablename.cpy" Or even as 
> a first pass at the idea of macros, which might not be overly 
> useful... a timed backup of the table to "this_tablename.bak" 
> a la vim or any of the dozens of other programs out there 
> that do this kind of thing.  I can't count how many times 
> this would have saved me from doing stupid things like 
> hitting BREAK/BREAK when I meant to hit BACKSPACE/BACKSPACE 
> or something equally as dumb at 4am in the morning... :-(  
> :-) [I can't imagine how horrible it would be for me to work 
> in Windows where a *single* wrong key can actually lose 4 
> hours of work... or even 5 minutes worth! As fast as you and 
> I (and many others) type, this can be an awful lot grief.]
> 
> There are so many improvements that would be nice in the 
> various FP programs, and that is why the first improvement of 
> a visible wish list itself, and projected "do" date or 
> "do_version" would be so helpful. It would just let us all 
> know two things... first, the wish suggested has actually 
> been seen by someone at FP Tech.... Second, the suggestion 
> has been vetted, and prioritized in some way and does or does 
> not have a chance of becoming reality.

How about a warning when saving using F8 that the prc table already exists?
Or, the ability to F6 to a different to either load or save a processing
table?.

Best of all would be the ability to have the option to load/copy in from prc
foobar line nn-nnn directly.

My orphaned prc tables follow the format name-.prc.  Also, I periodically
check my directories with explorer sorted by name.  I can delete any .pct
table that does not have a .tok table associated with it.  As for
versioning, I tend to add more dashes or date the table.

One "fix' I would love to see in *cabe", for the windows version, is the
requirement to press <esc> twice (using keytab=doc).  I have accidentally
blown away programming when missing the F1 key and hitting <ESC>.  The
double press would avoid this situation.

Richard Kreiss