URL:
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Summary: vi-style search fails on long wrapped lines
Project: GNU Screen
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Mon 07 Mar 2016 05:12:39 AM UTC
Category: Program Logic
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: Cur Dev Sources
Fixed Release: None
Planned Release: None
Work Required: None
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Details:
In scrollback mode, vi-style search commands sometimes fail to find text on
long wrapped lines. For example, if you have an 80-column window, and you run
this:
perl -e 'print "X" x 77, "foobar\n"'
It should print a long line that wraps in the middle of the word "foobar". If
you then enter scrollback mode and use the ? or / commands to search for
"foobar", though, screen won't find it! (It works if you do an emacs-style
search with C-s or C-r, but emacs-style search is weird in a different way: it
actually ignores *all* line breaks, not just the ones caused by line
wrapping.)
I've attached a patch to fix vi-style search. With this patch, it correctly
finds text on long lines regardless of where they happen to wrap.
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Date: Mon 07 Mar 2016 05:12:39 AM UTC Name:
0001-fix-vi-style-search-on-long-wrapped-lines.patch Size: 2kB By: None
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=36561>
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