Re: [Lynx-dev] bug - tabbing through links causes repetition of link text

[Mark Skilbeck]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:28:39PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Mark Skilbeck dixit:
> 
> >I noticed this behaviour when visiting google.com (bad, yes I know!): when
> >tabbing through the links after the first line of text, the text for the 
> >links
> >would change to include to first letter of the link-text. For example, if 
> >the 
> >link text was "iGoogle", upon tabbing to this link it would become 
> >"iiGoogle",
> >and so on the for the rest. AFAIK, this only affects google stuff.
> >
> >Does anybody else see this?
> 
> I used to see this.
> 
> >libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e, ncurses 5.9.20110404
> 
> Build with ncursesw. Should go away then.
> 
> HTH & HAND,
> //mirabilos
> -- 
>   “Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having
>           a peeing section in a swimming pool.”
>                                               -- Edward Burr

That fixes it.

To any interested parties, the fix was to use --with-screen=ncursesw in the
configure.

- mark.