Dan,

> Beginning with 3.8, most of this rock-solid simplicity seems to be
> broken.  For instance, I just tried to copy the contents of one file
> to another by the usual select-all / copy / select-all / paste
> sequence, and it did not work.  This has *always* worked on every
> file system, local or remote and, if it's broken it is often not
> clear what tool will do the job, and how to get at it.

 Copying and pasting sounds like a good one.  

> As another example, selection is broken in the FileList in the presence of binary data, making it nearly impossible to do some patches.  I think this is just a problem of character widths in the font being used, but I'm not sure.
> 
> This is just a plea that we not give up on the FileList as a
> rock-solid tool, while embracing the importance of international
> character support.  The FileList never was a document editor;  it
> never displayed RTF, and it doesn't need to display international
> characters.  If we want it to do that, then it must be as an option
> that leaves inviolate the ability to perform reliable file surgery
> when necessary.

  The truth is that that aspect of filelist isn't working for anyone.
I have to say that I've never done with the text pane of FileList
seriously.  It'd be the time to cut the loose ends.

> Besides just raising the issue I'm willing to help out -- anyone
> working on this is welcome to write me to pursue the matter farther.

 Thank you!

-- Yoshiki