Bug#699068: lynx: Cannot Type a Page-Number more than 999
On 2014-12-09 Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:22:23PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
>> Hi Hart, sorry for so late reply.
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:34:33 -0800, Larry Hart wrote:
>>> When browsing an item with more than 999 screens or pages,
>>> I am unable to type a number past 999.
[...]
> https://packages.debian.org/testing/allpackages
> it is slow - but I am not seeing how to reproduce the problem. For instance
> if I type
> 0
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 0
> p
> <return>
> I get the
> Follow link (or goto link or page) number:
> and can edit the line, and on pressing <return>, lynx shows page 1230
Hello Thomas,
I can still reproduce this with 2.8.9dev4. Pressing 0 gives me the
"Follow link (or goto link or page) number:"-prompt. However this
prompt only accepts 4 characters of input, and therefore page 999
("999p") is the limit.
ametzler@argenau:/tmp/LYNX/lynx-cur-2.8.9dev4$ LANG=C lynx --version
Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.4 (25 Jan 2015)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.3.8, ncurses 5.9.20140913(wide)
Built on linux-gnu Jan 26 2015 17:58:46
cu Andreas
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