Bug#699068: lynx: Cannot Type a Page-Number more than 999

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>]

On 2015-02-02 Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 01:33:31PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>> 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.

> I'm puzzled, since my own build of it works as I noted (just checked now). 
> Running in a 40-line terminal, that gives this text at the top:

>                         Debian -- Software Packages in "jessie" (p1230 of 4978)>
>    libcommon-sense-perl (3.73-2+b1)                                            ^
>           module that implements some sane defaults for Perl programs          ▒
>                                                                                ▒

> Just as a sanity check, I did 04975p, and got (as expected) just a few
> screens before the end of the file.

> Perhaps there is some option-setting which is interfering - but I don't
> see that turning on the links/fields numbering changes anything.
[...]

Hello,

I have just tried with
LC_ALL=C lynx -cfg=/dev/null https://packages.debian.org/testing/allpackages
in a xterm, but the behavior did not change.

The binary is built with
env cf_cv_SYSTEM_MAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail \
COMPRESS=/usr/bin/compress BZIP2=/bin/bzip2 UNZIP=/usr/bin/unzip \
ZIP=/usr/bin/zip \
LIBS="-lbsd" \
./configure --build=i586-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr \
--includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man \
--infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
--libdir=\${prefix}/lib/i386-linux-gnu \
--libexecdir=\${prefix}/lib/i386-linux-gnu --disable-maintainer-mode \
--disable-dependency-tracking --sysconfdir=/etc/lynx-cur --enable-8bit-toupper \
--enable-externs --enable-nsl-fork --enable-cgi-links --enable-exec-links \
--enable-exec-scripts --enable-persistent-cookies --enable-nls \
--enable-gzip-help --enable-prettysrc --enable-source-cache --enable-cjk \
--enable-default-colors --enable-nested-tables --enable-japanese-utf8 \
--enable-ipv6 --enable-forms-options --enable-justify-elts --enable-partial \
--enable-read-eta --enable-scrollbar --enable-syslog --with-zlib --with-bzlib \
--without-included-gettext --with-screen=ncursesw --enable-justify-elts \
--with-gnutls=/usr

cu Andreas
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