[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> I've noticed that if I use ',' to repeat a substitution
> in vi-mode, bash either dumps core or goes into a hard
> loop.
>
> Repeat-By:
> Any command should do, I used this now as I was filling out
> this form:
>
> $ set -o vi
> $ date; date; date
> Fri Mar 3 12:53:06 CST 2006
> Fri Mar 3 12:53:06 CST 2006
> Fri Mar 3 12:53:07 CST 2006
>
> Now, with vi-mode in effect, type 'ESC -' to bring up the
> "date..." command, type 'f e' to move the cursor to the
> first 'e', type 'r e' to replace the 'e' with 'e', type ';'
> to move the cursor to the second 'e', type '.' to repeat
> the previous substitution.
>
> For me, bash goes into a hard loop at this point and I need
> to 'kill -9' the process.
I can't reproduce it. Can you run this in a debugger and get a
stack trace of the point it goes into the hard loop or core dumps?
(Or anyone else, if they can produce it as well.) Thanks.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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