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On Dez 14 2023, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> My impression is that these people use a workflow based on few register
> (I guess maximum 5) because it is hard to read the register preview as
> it was before, so they work with for example only "a", "b" and "c", they
> always overwrite them and as there is only few registers they can
> always remember what they do.

The right way to handle that is to use mnemonic letters and punctuation
as registers.

It is even impossible now to use both lower and upper case letters.
That is a serious bug.

Registers need to be fast and accessible.  The current interface is slow
and cumbersome.

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