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

[ank man]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 5:43 AM, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:

[snip]

>> 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).

And as mentioned in (an older, hasn't been updated for years) OpenBSD .

I checked another system I have an account at Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
(what ever name that is now) and can confirm the bug there too.

> 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.

I think I mixed up DEL and BACKSPACE when I mentioned RUBOUT.
Apparently BACKSPACE, which works correvtly in lynx, was also called
RUBOUT in the past days.

I am old school. :-) And recently read some manuals of old CP/M
systems and the key was called RUBOUT there.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/5q0li0/this_keyboard_has_a_rub_out_key/?st=jcuio1b6&sh=11f9dc8b>
shows a vintage keyboard with a key labeled "RUB OUT" on it.

Sorry for the confusion, I should have named it "DEL" instead, not
"RUBOUT", which was wrong anyway, because that (today called
BACKSPACE) works in lynx. :-/

Again, DEL, not BACKSPACE is the problem in lynx (hope I got this
right now). Here in X, DEL has the keycode is 119, while BACKSPACE has
22.

Thanks.