onetom's posterous

• The command line editing is not similar enough to the one linux users got used to (i read the post and agree on avoiding readline)
  • ctrl-b instead of ctrl-a
  • no ctrl-r
  • cursor keys sux in R3
  • inside screen it's even more fucked up
  • no official advisory for a history file management
  • it whines about TERMCAP entry too long under Ubuntu
• screen is always either cleared or littered on startup
• no convenient way of supplying a program from the command line
  • --do is too long
  • i have to supply an explicite quit in the program
  • -w could be the default if the program is supplied from a string on the command line
  • it should be able to consume the program from the stdin (like bash, perl,  php, ruby...)
• REBOL View includes a lots of very useful features, like loading DLLs and HTTPS, image file manipulation but it doesn't start up properly without an X11 display (** User Error: Bad face in screen pane! ** Near: size-text self)
• it has only a 32bit version, so on a 64bit linux we have install ia32-libs which is 154M on Ubuntu with all its dependencies
• stderr handling? or it cant be done in a cross platform way? (under linux, the open/write/lines %/dev/fd/2 works)
• ... to be continued

I miss a few idioms as default which i would find useful regularly:

• map-each works like having an implicite /only. the opposite operation would be good maybe with some index variable..
  b: [10 20 30] collect [forall b [keep b/1 keep index? b]] == [10 1 20 2 30 3]
  map-each/index/flat e i [10 20 30] [e i] should give the same result as above
• join-with: func[b sep] [collect [forall b [keep b/1 unless tail? next b [keep sep]]]]
  print rejoin probe join-with [10 20 30] ", "
  [10 ", " 20 ", " 30]
  10, 20, 30