less 3.81 (current) - line editing, malfunction

[Hannu E K Nevalainen]

I've deactivated these, by renaming them as shown:

$ ls -Al ~/.*-x
-rw-r--r--    1 Hannu         678 Oct 23 12:41 ~/.Xdefaults-x
-rw-r--r--    1 Hannu         987 Oct 19 19:05 ~/.inputrc-x
-rw-r--r--    1 Hannu        2878 Oct 23 13:36 ~/.less-x

$ set | grep -i less

$ cat ~/.profile | grep -i less
# less --version older than 237 needs this
# export LESSCHARSET=latin1

$ set | grep -i term
COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm
TERM=xterm

$

NOTES:
 - Setting LESS and/or LESSCHARSET doesn't change the behaviour
   described below.
 - using lesskey on the above .less-x file
   (contents copied from "man lesskey") makes no difference.

At this state, launching a new rxvt+bash and then typing

$ man less
/LINE EDIT

displays what _should_ happen when you're editing a line in less. e.g. when
you enter "/" and are about to edit what you type afterwards.

But the keypresses listed below doesn't.
Is this a bug, or something else, for the current less or maybe rxvt?

I know that at least BACKSPACE has worked before, dunno how much I've edited
settings files after that.

keypress		displays,		bash CTRL-V
			does			+keypress
			nothing else

^LEFTARROW		ESCOd			^[Od
^RIGHTARROW		ESCOc			^[Oc
HOME			ESC[7~		^[[7~
END			ESC[8~		^[[8~
BACKSPACE		^H			^H
^BACKSPACE		^H			^H
^DELETE		ESC[3^		^[[3^
TAB			^I
ESC-TAB		^I
^L			^L

(cut and paste used for the right column)

cygwin - all the latest (give or take on or two packages)
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