>- when coding, anything that ends a word and may trigger some intellisense action may as well switch focus to the next window, as if ctrl+F1 was pressed. It's largely annoying

Tried to record a macro to see if there's anything passed through the keyboard to trigger intellisense, nothing. But then the annoying behavior didn't happen while the recording was on (strange, though). I tried removing stuff from _vfp.EditorOptions, it worked when I removed them all. As soon as I returned any one of them, it again switched focus on the next window in line (usually command or document view).

It seems I'll stay annoyed.

>- the help doesn't work because it doesn't display pages - the IE emulator wine uses treats it as foreign content, and the properties dialog on the chm file doesn't have the checkbox to make it domestic

The hackfox.chm works, though the display (in Ocular, a native document display app) is a bit erratic, initially it shows multiple pages in columns of varying height; requires zoom setting to show one page. The links on the page don't work, but at least the navigation from the left page does.