I've run into a few small issues with j801 that I do not like.

One: the horizontal position of the screen depends on the width of the last
line terminated by a lineend, rather than by the width of the final line
(where the cursor is).

This means I need to remember to hit enter after displaying a fat result.

Two: turning on and off line numbers in an editing window affects all
windows. This means that if I turn on line numbers in an editing window (so
I can find which line triggered an error) I need to wait for them to appear
in the main window (which might be very large). Also, I cannot turn them
off from the ijx window - I have to come back to the editing window to do
that.

Three: cutback (on the stack) frequently fails to do anything for me, when
debugging. This was also an issue for me in j601 so I expect it's probably
silent error handler or a resource limitation or something like that. I
know how to work around this kind of problem, but I worry about other
people.

Four: the config windows (Edit->Configure..) do not include any mechanism
to take effect immediately when they are run. Instead, they run in the base
locale where they are just clutter. I can think of several options here
(something based on putting a cocurrent line at the top of each config
file, or a menu option to redigest the config scripts or even comments
describing how to update the live config) but for now updating config
involves starting a new J session and while that might be the best approach
it still feels uncomfortable for me (it is hard to play with the config
scripts - I have to know which foreigns to use and/or where to locate the
relevant code).

Thanks,

-- 
Raul
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