[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#888391: lynx: RUBOUT deletes character in FRONT of the cursor instead of BEHIND

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed upstream
Control: found -1 2.8.9dev11-1
Control: found -1 2.8.9dev1-2
Control: fixed -1 2.8.8dev.12-2
Control: retitle -1 lynx: DEL deletes character in FRONT of the cursor instead of BEHIND

Hi,

Ankman wrote:
> Deleting a character (anywhere: web form, url fields...) with RUBOUT
> (or DEL) deletes the character BEFORE the cursor instead of AFTER
> (next right to the cursor).

thanks for this bug report. This is indeed the case, but I never
noticed it (probably because I usually use backspace in web form
fields).

> I want to note this might not be a bug but a design flaw.

It's very likely a bug, or more specific: It seems to be a regression.

> But this happens in any lynx on Linux, UNIX, OpenBSD I tried.

I've tested all lynx versions available in supported Debian releases
and found that those lynx versions in

* Debian Unstable/Buster (2.8.9dev16-2),
* Debian 9 Stretch (2.8.9dev11-1), and
* Debian 8 Jessie (2.8.9dev1-2)

exhibit this behaviour, but not the lynx version in

* Debian 7 Wheezy (2.8.8dev.12-2).

So I assume, this regression has crept in during the 2.8.9
development (since Debian does not patch any Lynx code, only default
config and the configure script).

P.S.: I've never heard of "RUBOUT" as an alternative name for DEL or
DELETE.

		Regards, Axel
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