Free42 NSTK ENTER behavior

[squid2]

(10-16-2021 08:24 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(10-15-2021 06:01 PM)squid2 Wrote:  I'd love NSTK mode and its more intuitive ENTER behaviour to become the default, and 4STK can be renamed legacy compatibility / old curmudgeon mode . I suppose that would break out-of-the-box HP-42S compatibility though.

It would break out-of-the-box 42S compatibility... and that's not acceptable as far as I'm concerned. There are people who use Free42 to run legacy HP-42S programs, and they would run into all sorts of problems if NSTK were the default. I've had bug reports from users like that over much smaller compatibility issues. And I don't mean people being fussy, but people getting outright wrong behavior and having no idea why.

It is debatable whether or not the "Allow Big Stack (NSTK) mode" setting in the app preferences is really necessary, but making NSTK the default would be a bridge too far, I think.

Understandable, since full out-of-the-box HP-42S compatibility is a goal of the project. As you mentioned, the option to hide NSTK mode is probably unnecessary, though on the other hand I discovered NSTK mode by seeing it mentioned in the settings (leading me to search for what it is and how to enable it).