Bug#606957: vim: Vim segfaults while sending clipboard content to another application

Tue Dec 14 13:12:59 UTC 2010

tag 606957 unreproducible
thanks

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:37:26AM +0100, Marcin Szewczyk, Wodny wrote:
> Test case:
> - 9MB text file
> - Iceweasel 3.5.16 with an open tab containing:
>     <html>
>     <body>
>     <textarea rows="24" cols="80"></textarea>
>     </body>
>     </html>
> 
> in .vimrc:
> vmap <C-c> "+y
> 
> 1) Select contents of the 9MB file.
> 2) Hit ^C
> 3) Focus on the textarea in Iceweasel
> 4) Hit ^V
> 5) Wait for Vim's SEGV

I waited and instead the text field received the whole paste and Vim was
still running.  Iceweasel was very CPU intensive when doing the paste
(and when clearing the textarea between attempts to reproduce) but other
than that I didn't see any abnormal behavior.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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