Re: LYNX-DEV: REpost of bug: can YOU duplicate it?

[Foteos Macrides]

address@hidden (Larry W. Virden, x2487) wrote:
>> Please, someone try this and tell me what happens:
>> 
>>   Do "v" to get long bookmarks page.
>> 
>>   Move the cursor down onto the next-to-last item on the 
>>     current screen-full -- 
>>     BUT be SURE to move it there ONLY VIA doing a /-SEARCH to
>>     something ON that next-to-last screen-line.
>> 
>>   THE BUG?: NOW, do "j" (vikeys), so as to move the cursor down 
>>     ONE MORE LINE, ie moving now to the bottom line on the screen.
>> 
>>   For ME, what happens is that RATHER THAN of going down to that
>>     bottom line, it INSTEAD "PAGES" to the NEXT SCREENFULL, even
>>     SKIPPING what was the final line on the prior page (the
>>     one I was trying to get to via the two-step process:
>>     /-search then "j").
>> 
>>   Note: I have 62 lines on my full-screen lynx display.
>> ;
>
>Okay, I took the 3 steps mentioned above.  When I pressed j, I moved to
>the last line on the screen.  My window is 50 lines rather than 62.
>Sounds like inconsistent behavior.

        Most likely, he has a wrapped link, due to a narrow window (he
also has COLS set to 62).  What he thinks is another link on the current
page in fact is a second line of the current link, and the next link is
on the next page.

                                Fote

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