Re: zsh 4.3.10 history-incremental-search-backward freezes in UTF-8

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:20:56 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010-03-18 14:30:20 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > I can't think of anything that's changed that would have fixed this (but
> > it's been a long time now and we're due for another releases).  I won't
> > be doing any work on it until I get a reproducible case I can run.  It
> > sounds like it should be fairly trivial to fix if I can find out what
> > (misinterpreted) characters are causing a freeze at what point in the
> > code.
> 
> I think this should be reproducible with shared history file:
> 
> 1. Type in an ISO-8859-1 terminal: echo zzà zz
> 2. In a UTF-8 terminal: history-incremental-search-backward then type z

Yes, I can see that.  All that's really on offer with the wrong character
set is it doesn't hang...

Index: Src/Zle/zle_hist.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/Zle/zle_hist.c,v
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -p -u -r1.63 zle_hist.c
--- Src/Zle/zle_hist.c	6 Sep 2009 21:37:14 -0000	1.63
+++ Src/Zle/zle_hist.c	18 Mar 2010 15:42:53 -0000
@@ -1454,6 +1454,8 @@ doisearch(char **args, int dir, int patt
 	    memset(&mbs, 0, sizeof(mbs));
 	    while (charpos < end_pos) {
 		ret = mb_metacharlenconv_r(zlemetaline + charpos, &wc, &mbs);
+		if (ret <= 0) /* Unrecognised, treat as single char */
+		    ret = 1;
 		if (charpos <= pos && pos < charpos + ret)
 		    isearch_startpos = charcount;
 		charcount++;


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