[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#806460: search highlight glitch

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed
Control: found -1 2.8.9dev6-5
Control: forwarded -1 dickey at invisible-island.net

Hi Zefram,

thanks for the bug report.

Zefram wrote:
> Under some circumstances, whose envelope I have not fully determined,
> there is a visual glitch when highlighting instances of text searched
> for in a displayed web page.
>
> When searching for a given search string in a given page, and looking
> at a particular instance of the string, whether the glitch occurs is
> totally deterministic.  When searching in page source for a string that
> begins with a dot character, the glitch almost always manifests, but not
> absolutely always.  I have also seen the glitch, but less frequently,
> when performing other searches in page source.  I have never seen the
> glitch when searching a rendered page.

I was able to reproduce the glitch inside an uxterm (at at least two
different terminal sizes) when searching for ".html" in the source of
my own homepage http://axel.beckert.ch/ when the string

  href="https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/maintainer/a/abe@debian.org.html"

was displayed as

  href="https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/maintainer/a/abe@debian.or.htmll"
                                                                  ^^^^^

It seems to happen only at two of a dozen search hits inside the
source code, i.e. you might need to scroll around to see it.

I can reproduce this issue in Debian 8 Jessie as well as in Debian
Unstable. Hence Cc'ing upstream as it's present in the current
upstream development release, too.

		Regards, Axel
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