Re: lynx-dev Bookmark remove bug in Lynx 2.8

[Leonid Pauzner]

>      * Subject: lynx-dev Bookmark remove bug in Lynx 2.8
>      * From: Alachua Freenet Administrative/Tech Support <address@hidden>
>      * Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:50:55 -0400 (EDT)
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> I discovered a bug in Lynx 2.8 (and probably earlier versions) where the
> Remove bookmark feature does not work correctly.
>
> A user on my system had a large bookmarks file (over 200 bookmarks) and when
> she tried to delete a bookmark, it would not remove the highlighted bookmark
> but instead delete one several bookmarks before the highlighted entry.
>
> It turned out she had about 4 bookmarks early in the file where there was no
> link text for the bookmark. I.E. the entries resembled:
>
> <a href="http://www.foo.org/";></a>
                              ^^^^
This is a general Lynx problem:
a link should not be associated with zero-wide object,
for links paired to images Lynx create [LINK] symbol.

>
> and when viewed these entries would be numbered but there would be no link
> text:
>
> 12. Such-and-such webpage
> 13.
> 14. Another webpage
>
> This appears to confuse the bookmark removal system. Since the user has been
> on AFN for sometime and we've only relatively recently upgraded to Lynx 2.8,
> the bad entries in her bookmarks file may have been generated by an older
> version of Lynx. Presumably that occured because she added a bookmark for a
> page that had no Title entry and she didn't enter any text for the bookmark
> title.
>
> I haven't had the time to look at the code and add my own fix for this
> problem but will probably be doing so in the future. I wanted to pass on the
> bug-report however. Apologies if this has been reported before, I was unable
> to determine if there have been prior reports of this problem.
>
> --Jeff Mercer,
>
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