[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#793107: octave: Find-replace hang when using regex searches with $

[Mike Miller]

Control: fixed -1 octave/4.0.0-1

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:11:25 +0100, D Haley wrote:
> Octave will hang (spin) when the following procedure is followed on my system (every time). 
> 
> 1) Launch octave GUI
> 2) create a new file in the editor window, eg by using the "script" button (top left)
> 3) in the editor tab, in an unnamed file, enter the following data 1<LF>, where <LF> is done by tapping enter on the keyboard.
> 4) Use find-replace (Ctrl+F) , and tick Regular Expressions, then Find "$", replace with "," (no quotations).
> 
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> 5) Spin.
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 5) Replacing $ with ,

Thanks for the report. I am able to reproduce this in 3.8.2 but not in
4.0.0 (currently in unstable). I believe this is the same as upstream
bug #41051 [1], which was fortunately already found and fixed for the
4.0.0 release.

I don't know that this warrants a stable release update, but may be
fixed in a backport of 4.0.0 to stable. Octave team, any plans to
backport 4.0.0 to jessie-backports?

[1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41051

-- 
mike