On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 10:20:28 -0500 (EST), Thomas Dickey wrote:
| > "default" happens to be the default value, but it is a setting that is
| > saved in .lynxrc, so once changed, it persists.
|
| I agree. But after a fresh install the Bash-like-Bindings are not default,
| are they? If not, in my opinion that should be changed.
|
| That would also close this bug report (well design flaw in my opinion). No
| re-write of vim's code necessary at all in this case.
a fresh install will never modify your "~/.lynxrc" file, since it is not
part of the package.
(reinstalling vim doesn't alter your .vimrc or .viminfo files, either)
I know.
Let's assume a *fresh* *installation* of vi(m), may be as part of a fresh
Linux installation. There will be no .vimrc or .viminfo I understand. But
it should write a /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg . I suppose the maintainer could
change this file by adding
lineedit_mode=Bash-like Bindings
there. Thus every fresh install would create the behavour of deleteing the
character after the cursor when hitting DEL. If a user doesn't like this,
for what ever reason, he could change this in the ~/.lynxrc .
In the end, only changing the /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg would take care of this
(IMO) design flaw.
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Andreas
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