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

[Ankman]

Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.9dev16-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: a11y

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

Deleting a character (anywhere: web form, url fields...) with RUBOUT (or DEL) deletes the character BEFORE the cursor instead of AFTER (next right to the cursor).

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Typing DEL (or might be called RUBOUT).

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Deletes character BEFORE the cursor just like BACKSPACE does.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Delete the character AFTER the cursor, like in with any other application.

I want to note this might not be a bug but a design flaw. But this happens in any lynx on Linux, UNIX, OpenBSD I tried.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1001, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lynx depends on:
ii  libbsd0       0.8.7-1
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6         2.26-4
ii  libgnutls30   3.5.16-1
ii  libidn11      1.33-2.1
ii  libncursesw5  6.0+20171125-1
ii  libtinfo5     6.0+20171125-1
ii  lynx-common   2.8.9dev16-2
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages lynx recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.60

lynx suggests no packages.

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