Bug#285532: vim: Regular expression "crash"

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

tags 285532 + moreinfo
thanks

> I was searching my ~/mbox for "315" (my area code) and after about 10
> matches vim took a long time.  I waited a few minutes and it still had
> neither found the next match nore reported "search wrapped to
> beginning".  strace didn't say anything at all .. but gdb -p indicated

Are you still able to reproduce this bug?

I tried on a mailbox of about 30 Mb searching various kind of strings
and vim works quickly and without noticeable delays nor the behaviour
you described.

Thanks for the report,
Cheers.

-- 
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