[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#564177: mcedit: cursor behaves crazy after end of line

[Andreas Tille]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.7.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

when using the internal editor mcedit I realised that the cursor can be
moved further than end of line which gives the impression of an infinite
number of spaces behind the last character which is definitely an
unexpected behaviour for an editor.  Especially it is not possible to
tell whether there are real spaces or not and the user starts "removing"
spaces at end of line if he asumes there are some.

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining mc

       Andreas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.0-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-3.2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.2.1-1    The S-Lang programming library - r

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.46-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]    9.1.3-0.2       Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
pn  arj                      <none>          (no description available)
ii  bzip2                    1.0.5-3         high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  catdvi                   <none>          (no description available)
ii  dbview                   1.0.4-1         View dBase III files
pn  djvulibre-bin            <none>          (no description available)
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]      2.26.2-2        Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  file                     5.03-1          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]          1:3.6.7-1       PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  imagemagick              7:6.5.5.3-1     image manipulation programs
ii  kghostview [pdf-viewer]  4:3.5.9-3       PostScript viewer for KDE
ii  links                    2.2-1+b1        Web browser running in text mode
ii  lynx                     2.8.8dev.1-1    Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
pn  odt2txt                  <none>          (no description available)
ii  perl                     5.10.0-25       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python                   2.5.4-2         An interactive high-level object-o
pn  python-boto              <none>          (no description available)
ii  python-tz                2009l-1         Python version of the Olson timezo
ii  unzip                    6.0-1           De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m                      0.5.2-2.1       WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  xpdf-utils [pdf-viewer]  3.02-1.4+lenny1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zip                      3.0-1           Archiver for .zip files

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