HP 49/50 interactive stack bug

[Joe Horn]

(08-05-2024 12:30 AM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  The 49/50 manual states that the EDIT menu entry in interactive stack mode triggers EDITB ("Best"), but it does not.

Where does the documentation say this? I looked, and failed to find that in the documentation. The AUR does say that "Pressing [EDIT] performs EDITB" (page G3) but that's referring to the TOOL menu, not the interactive stack menu.

Just in case there is any confusion, "interactive stack mode" is entered by pressing either the HIST key or the up-arrow key. Its menu is different than the TOOL menu, whose EDIT softkey does perform EDITB.

By the way, the easiest way to execute EDITB on the 50g is to press and hold down the left-shift key, then press the down-arrow key. All such non-obvious keystroke shortcuts are listed in the 50g AUR, appendix G.

(08-05-2024 12:30 AM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  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.

On the 48G/GX, VISIT is most easily executed by pressing left-shift EDIT.

On the 50g, VISIT is most easily executed by pressing left-shift down-arrow.