lynx-dev 2-8 bug with `n'

[Philip Webb]

980504 Thomas Dickey wrote:  
> 980503 Philip Webb wrote:    
>> there's still the bug in the effect of  n ,  
>> which fails to find & place the next string occurrence accurately.
> It is entangled in some logic that Klaus & Fote did differently.
>> if you tell me which  .c  files to look at & maybe which line ranges, 
>> i might be able to do something myself 
>> & at least have an easy way of dipping my toe in the water ... 
> Start from LYMainLoop.c, there are  2  cases  LYK_WHEREIS & LYK_NEXT ,
> which call a common function  textsearch  in LYSearch.c,
> which in turn calls  www_user_search  in GridText.c.
> Klaus moved some logic into a utility function  adjust_search_result .
> Since otherwise www_user_search is much like 2.7.2's,
> I assume the problem lies in how  adjust_search_result  is coded/integrated.
> I saw these differneces while aligning things,
> but don't know the history or intent.
 
i've now got around to extracting the  4  sections of code ( 11 pp )
& will see what i can make of them: there are some comments by FM & KW.

BTW is there any logic to how functions are placed in files in  /src
or did they just growed?  might it be useful to break up longer files?

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