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Re: info segfaults when using tree-search-next


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: info segfaults when using tree-search-next
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 19:03:08 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:31:54AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 08:58, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 06:17:57PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > To reproduce, run 'info/ginfo doc/info-stnd.info node'.
> > > Then type:  Alt+/  wed  <Enter>.
> > > Then type five times Alt+Shift+}.
> > > Segmentation fault.
> > 
> > Thanks for finding this; I've fixed it.
> 
> Verified as fixed.
> 
> But... when does the message "Going back to last match from %s"
> now occur?  As far as I can tell, it always gets overwritten by
> "No more matches".  So it seems the first one can be dropped.

I'm not sure why I added that message in the first place, but I
think was was because I was concerned about searching through
large files and showing the user what was happening, so the program
wouldn't appear to have crashed if it was taking a long time to go back 
to the last match.  The other searching commands do have messages
that can be printed while the searching is happening, like
"Searching subfile %s...", although they don't print messages like
"Going forward to next match...".  I don't know whether this message
is really necessary, but it seems harmless to include it.



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