HP 49/50 interactive stack bug

[Vincent Weber]

Hi all,

The 49/50 manual states that the EDIT menu entry in interactive stack mode triggers EDITB ("Best"), but it does not. It does trigger EDIT instead, so it seems that there is no easy way to edit a stack equation item in EQW.

The 48 has the same behaviour, but at least, when you press VIEW, you can switch to EQW by pressing ON. In the 49/50 viewer, pressing ON just exits the viewer.

And the 48 Metakernel allows shift modifiers on the INFO menu entry to trigger EDITB and VISITB. On the 49/50, which is supposed to have all the metakernel features, strange enough, you can use left shift on the VIEW entry to trigger VISITB (I'm not even sure this is documented) , but no way to trigger EDITB.

I am quite puzzled that this was never reported as a bug and corrected over the years. Any reason for this?

Also, it seems that the VISIT options have gone down over the years. On the 48SX, you could simply use VISIT on a stack level number in normal stack mode. On the 48GX, you had to use level+1 and enter the interactive stack, much less intuitive. On the 49/50, it seems that this possibility is just totally gone, everthing I tried failed.

I would be grateful if somebody could explain to me the rationale for this behaviour, which I find rather strange.

Many thanks and best regards,

Vincent