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 -- -- no debconf information