[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#699068: [larryhsfriends] Fwd: lynx: Cannot Type a Page-Number more than

[Dallas E. Legan]

> From:    Denis Briand <debian at denis-briand.fr>
> To:      aw585 at lafn.org
> CC:      larryhsfriends at yahoogroups.com, lynx-dev at nongnu.org
> Date:    Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:24:52 +0100
> Subject: Re: [larryhsfriends] Fwd: lynx: Cannot Type a Page-Number
>          more than
> 
> Hello,
> I have just try with tcsh. It works fine also.
> Please send a mail to 699068 at bugs.debian.org and Cc to me, to explain how 
> we can
> exactly reproduce it. Its very important to find where is exactly the bug.
> Regards
> 
> Denis Briand=20


To reproduce this:

While running lynx, with numbering of links and/or form fields activated:

1) Press the '0' (zero digit key)
2) Lynx then opens up a field at the bottom of the screen to
      accept input - a link to either activate (a simple integer),
        a link to go to (a simple integer followed by the letter 'g'),
        or a page to go to (a simple integer followed by the letter 'p').
3) After typing 4 characters, it simply does not take any more input.
   This limits the maximum link that can be activated by typing
   in a link number to a maximum of 9999,
   and a link number to go to without activating to 999 ('999g')
   or a page number to go to 999 ('999p').

I've done some checking on various machines I have accounts on:

1) My desktop  / Debian testing
   Lynx 2.8.9dev.1  (12 March 2014)
     problem found

2) A server I have / Debian stable
   Lynx 2.8.8dev.12 (22 February 2012)
     problem found

3) Larry Hart's machine  / Debian testing
      Lynx 2.8.9dev.2 (21 December 2014)
       problem found

4) Account on Freeshell.de / Debian GNU/Linux 7
      Lynx 2.8.8dev.12 (22 February 2012)
     8 character instead of 4 character limit found
        (probably unnoticable for practical purposes, but present in a form)

5)  Account on sdf.org / NetBSD
    Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 (21 June 2010)
     no apparent limit on number of characters typed in

6) Account on grex.net /  OpenBSD 5.0-stable
     Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 (21 June 2010)
      no apparent limit on number of characters to typed in
       

Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / legan at acm.org / aw585 at lafn.org
http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com
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