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(This issue continues with the build sent to me on 11/9.)

Appended program directory (location of efte2.hlp) to HELP and BOOKSHELF; rebooted.

Pressing F1 does nothing.

Help | Contents does nothing.

Alt-F1 (and Help | Keyboard) works as expected.

Regular expression anchoring for beginning of line fails, apparently since 2008.

Finding "^$" as a regular expression should match empty lines (it does in FTE/2006) but in eFTE2 (also FTE/2008) it fails and instead matches lines that are 1-character long.

Also, "^." should match the first character of every non-empty line, but matches the second one instead.

Background: in most languages, accented/combined/composite characters are typed in by pressing a sequence of two keys: a "dead" key for the diacritic, followed by a "normal" key for the base character, f.e. I should press ´ + a to get á.

This works as expected in VIO eFTE2, but in PM eFTE2 two characters are produced: "´á", "¨ö", etc. (I kind of understand this, because getting keyboard input is totally different in PM and VIO.)

FTEPM/2006 has the same problem.

I suspect PM actually produces two characters for these combinations, somehow marking the first one for replacement, and it is up to the application to handle it: both system E and Aaron Lawrence's AE show the diacritic character *after* the cursor when a dead key is pressed, and when a normal key is pressed, the accent character is replaced and the cursor position is moved after the combined character as normal.

Example: I press "dead" "^" and I see "^", then I press "A", and "^" is replaced with "Â" and cursor is moved.

EPM does not ever show the accent character nor moves the cursor, it only shows the final combined character after the normal key is pressed.