[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#862148: Lynx: Long search strings to Google get truncated.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 09:17:22PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> Package: lynx
> Varsion: 2.8.9dev13-l
> 
> When I type in a search string (in English) to Google or Bing and the length of my
> search string is longer than the blank space that Goolge or Bing provides
> for it, the excess part of the string doesn't get typed in (or if it does
> it doesn't get echoed to the screen).  This problem was not present in
> dev11-1.  I suspect that this bug is due to the fix for another bug
> involving the echoing of multi-byte characters #841155 which dev13-1
> fixed.  But it seems that this fix has resulted in a new bug.

I see.  While I'm fixing this case, it would be nice to know if the
original bug report is addressed...

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
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