package gnuplot
found 75403 4.2.0-3
thanks
Hello,
this bug is still open for both 4.2.0-3 and the stable snapshot
4.0.0-5.
I suspect it is related to #319994: please read specifically the info provided
by "Chali Ahmul M.P.U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about readline, in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319994
To test this bug, just open a terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal or whatever),
enter gnuplot and type any sequence of characters which exceeds the line length,
so that the line folds to the next. Then press left arrow and go back through
the typed line. All is fine until you reach the left border of the screen, then
you loose track of the cursor, which is indeed somewhere along the command line,
but you don't know where.
This can be very annoying and can lead to incorrect command lines, and even to
undesired DATA LOSS, in unlucky cases.
Consider for example you type a long line, then you press left arrow long enough
to reach (without knowing) the beginning of the line. Then you type
!rm *
(with a space character after the "*") and press enter. Regardless of the
contents of the rest of the long line, this would remove all files in the
current directory without you "seeing" beforehand. I admit this is a bit
extreme, but other data loss could occur with unwanted and unseen typing,
resulting in a line starting with:
!cat > VeryPreciousAndExpensiveFile
So I also propose to increase the severity to "grave", but I leave this up to
you Cyril.
By the way, this bug is surely absent in all Fedora Core releases I tested and
in SUSE 9.2.
All the best,
Nick
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