BackSpace deletes whitespace to beginning of line

[Daniel Baskerville]

Hi,

After using and loving ne for years and years I recently updated to a version of ubuntu that ships with 2.3 which is exhibiting the above behavior.
I've verified that this is the BackSpace command itself, not some kind of macro that the backspace key is bound to.
I checked out the latest 2.4 source tarball and it's the same.

Is this intentional? Is there a way to turn it off?

BTW, as an aside the linker command in the 2.4 src/makefile does not work with my version of gcc (4.6.3).

Instead of,

  $(CC) -lm $(OPTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(if $(NE_TEST), -coverage,) $^ $(LIBS) -o $(PROGRAM)

It should be,

  $(CC) $(OPTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(if $(NE_TEST), -coverage,) $^ -lm $(LIBS) -o $(PROGRAM)

(-lm should be with the other libs, after the input files, otherwise it gets ignored and the linker cannot find the math lib symbols)

Thanks,
 - Daniel

[utoddl]

Daniel,

Thanks for reporting the makefile issue. I have committed your suggested fix.

The Backspace issue is addressed in the inadvertently created adjacent topic here.
Executive summary: it's the "Tabs" flag.