HP 49/50 interactive stack bug

[Vincent Weber]

Hi Joe,

Page E-8 of the 49G user guide, the section reads "Interactive stack commands" , and EDIT is said to open the best environment, i.e the matrix editor if the pointer stack entry is a matrix. Which is just not what happens.

I am well aware of the difference between interactive stack mode and normal stack mode, and how the 48GX handles VISIT. I was not talking about visiting a named object (all calculators do fine in this department) but about visiting a stack element based on its index. On the 48SX you could enter 3 on the stack, then VISIT would visit stack entry number 3. On the 48GX, for the same result, you need to put 4 (not 3) on the stack, then enter the interactive stack mode, then press right shift + EDIT (which reads "CMD"). Quite less intuitive. On the 49/50, it seems this feature is completely gone. At least I have never found a way to do it, but I would be happy to be proven wrong.

By the way, on the 50G, EDITB is performed directly with down arrow. Left shift + down arrow performs VISIT on a name (EDIT on anything else) , and holding left shift + down arrow performs VISITB on a name (EDITB on anything else).

Best regards,

Vincent