Package: centericq
Version: 4.21.0-10
Severity: normal

Centericq's line editing code is a very strange beast.  If I were to,
say, type a sentence or two, and then arrow left a bit, and type some
more, I'll get very strange behavior:

│   ├─ PersonPer sonper  │──────────────────────────────[ yahoo Interlocutor ]─│
│   ├─ Personpersonp     │ Centericq is a very strange program with a poor     │
│   ├─ PersonPerson      │ understanding of text editing procedures.  It       │
│   ├─ Personpers        │ cannot deal with inner line inserts intelligently.  │
│   ├─ PersonPersonpers  │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpe          │                                                     │
│   ├─ Perso             │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personper         │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpersonper   │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpe          ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤

Place the cursor at X (where the p would be):

│   ├─ PersonPer sonper  │──────────────────────────────[ yahoo Interlocutor ]─│
│   ├─ Personpersonp     │ Centericq is a very strange program with a poor     │
│   ├─ PersonPerson      │ understanding of text editing Xrocedures.  It       │
│   ├─ Personpers        │ cannot deal with inner line inserts intelligently.  │
│   ├─ PersonPersonpers  │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpe          │                                                     │
│   ├─ Perso             │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personper         │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpersonper   │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpe          ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤

... and type "silliness ":

│   ├─ PersonPer sonper  │──────────────────────────────[ yahoo Interlocutor ]─│
│   ├─ Personpersonp     │ Centericq is a very strange program with a poor     │
│   ├─ PersonPerson      │ understanding of text editing                       │
│   ├─ Personpers        │ silliness Xrocedures.                               │
│   ├─ PersonPersonpers  │ It                                                  │
│   ├─ Personpe          │ cannot deal with inner line inserts intelligently.  │
│   ├─ Perso             │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personper         │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpersonper   │                                                     │
│   ├─ Personpe          ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤

Very odd indeed!  Sometimes this silliness even makes it over the wire, I
believe.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages centericq depends on:
ii  centericq-common              4.21.0-3   A text-mode multi-protocol instant
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcomerr2                    1.38-2     common error description library
ii  libcurl3                      7.15.0-5   Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-3  GCC support library
ii  libgnutls12                   1.2.8-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.1-4      library for common error values an
ii  libgpgme11                    1.1.0-1    GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
ii  libidn11                      0.5.18-1   GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62                     6b-10      The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkrb53                      1.4.3-5    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8a-3   SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-4    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-6  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages centericq recommends:
ii  elinks [www-browser]    0.10.6-1         advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  elvis [www-browser]     2.2.0-3          powerful clone of the vi/ex text e
ii  emacs20 [www-browser]   20.7-13.3        The GNU Emacs editor.
ii  galeon [www-browser]    1.3.21-8         GNOME web browser for advanced use
ii  konqueror [www-browser] 4:3.4.2-4        KDE's advanced file manager, web b
ii  links [www-browser]     0.99+1.00pre12-1 Character mode WWW browser
ii  lynx [www-browser]      2.8.5-2          Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  mozilla-browser [www-br 2:1.7.12-1       The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  mozilla-firefox [www-br 1.0.7-1          lightweight web browser based on M
ii  sox                     12.17.8-1        A universal sound sample translato
ii  xemacs21-gnome-mule [ww 21.4.17-2        highly customizable text editor --
ii  xemacs21-mule [www-brow 21.4.17-2        highly customizable text editor --

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