[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#584241: mcedit goes to endless loop when trying to replace \n regexp with any substring

[Nikolay Shaplov]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.7.0.1-1
Severity: normal    


Go to the mcedit, create some text with several lines in it, press F4, 
enter \n into "Enter search string:" and chose "Regular expression".   
Press All in " Confirm replace" dialog.                                

Now you will have to kill your mcedit, as it will do repacing forever.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.0-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-3.3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.2.2-4    The S-Lang programming library - r

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.48-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                         <none>       (no description available)
ii  bzip2                       1.0.5-4      high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  catdvi                      <none>       (no description available)
pn  dbview                      <none>       (no description available)
pn  djvulibre-bin               <none>       (no description available)
ii  file                        5.04-2       Determines file type using "magic"
pn  gv                          <none>       (no description available)
ii  imagemagick                 7:6.6.0.4-2  image manipulation programs
pn  odt2txt                     <none>       (no description available)
ii  okular [pdf-viewer]         4:4.3.4-1+b1 document viewer for KDE 4
ii  perl                        5.10.1-12    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii  python                      2.5.4-9      An interactive high-level object-o
pn  python-boto                 <none>       (no description available)
pn  python-tz                   <none>       (no description available)
ii  unzip                       6.0-4        De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m                         0.5.2-4      WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  zip                         3.0-3        Archiver for .zip files

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