Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2 bug- line too long with external editor in text field

[Leonid Pauzner]

12-Nov-99 04:03 Roy Rodenstein wrote:

> Anyway, I recently got lynx2.8.2 and noticed a problem when using the
> 'control-V e' feature to invoke an external editor for filling out a
> textarea. It worked great, except I had run into line-length limits in
> browsers on textareas, so I tried a very long line in the editor and
> sure enough, when I saved it Lynx crashed with the usual message. I

that was finally fixed in the latest development version lynx2.8.3dev.14
- try it now.
(Oh, hot key was changed...
to use this development version you need to set
KEYMAP:e:EDITTEXTAREA
line in lynx.cfg in order to get the '^V e' mapping).

> tried it again and this time Lynx didn't even print the message, it
> simply exited with vim's 'file was written' message- as if I had been in
> just the editor, not lynx!