Left/right arrow keys don't work in native editor

[nbinont]

Observed issue in mcu8051ide_1.4.7-2_all.deb on DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS"

Others have observed issue as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqUX4wgt-iA (comment)

Apparently the application relies on tcl8.5, but the package allows it to use tcl8.6 and it then breaks with tcl8.6. http://mcu8051ide.sourceforge.net/forum?forum=0&thread=259

Version 1.4.9 (upstream) does not have this issue (but did force my system to install the correct 8.5 packages): https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcu8051ide/files/mcu8051ide/1.4.9/

It would be nice to have a usable package in the repository.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[scruss (scruss)]

Still broken on 21.04.

Original report is a little guarded: the package is completely non-functional because it relies on tcl8.5, which has no installation candidate