LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug

[Philip Webb]

970414 Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: 
> On Apr 14 97, Philip Webb <address@hidden> wrote:
> > to delete bookmarks: (1) enter  r  when viewing the file:
> > this has an obscure bug with some systems/editors & deletes the wrong line;
> 
> It is not really an 'obscure bug', deleting the wrong line with the 'r'
> command happens mainly when you have previously edited the bookmark file
> and inserted a \n or \r somewhere inside a line.

thanx for telling me: i raised this on the list a couple of months ago
& was told by all but one respondent that they couldn't reproduce it;
the one (other) was left as puzzled as me.

so WHY is the bookmark file not a regularly editable file?

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