Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug

[Howard Kaikow]

I find that I am able to edit lynx_bookmarks.html with an ordinary text
editor such as jed or pico or edit.

At 11:31 PM 4/14/97 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>970414 Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: 
>> On Apr 14 97, Philip Webb <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > to delete bookmarks: (1) enter  r  when viewing the file:
>> > this has an obscure bug with some systems/editors & deletes the wrong
line;
>> 
>> It is not really an 'obscure bug', deleting the wrong line with the 'r'
>> command happens mainly when you have previously edited the bookmark file
>> and inserted a \n or \r somewhere inside a line.
>
>thanx for telling me: i raised this on the list a couple of months ago
>& was told by all but one respondent that they couldn't reproduce it;
>the one (other) was left as puzzled as me.
>
>so WHY is the bookmark file not a regularly editable file?
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