Re: [BUG] Zsh crashes when using autocomplete because of memory unsafety (double free)

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Apologies that the previous post was not in plain text mode, gmail
reacts to the type of the message being replied-to ...)

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 12:27 PM Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With this change the vanishing quote mark no longer vanishes and a description appears:
>

This might actually fix some other obscure bugs/oddities in completion
where things mysteriously disappear from the command line.

Here's the patch again in case HTML mangled it for the previous message:

diff --git a/Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c b/Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c
index fdd1687..2c24a13 100644
--- a/Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c
+++ b/Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c
@@ -1897,6 +1897,7 @@ get_comp_string(void)
                            zlemetacs = wb;
                    }
                    we -= skipchars;
+                   offs -= skipchars;
                }
            } else {
                ocs = zlemetacs;
@@ -1910,6 +1911,7 @@ get_comp_string(void)
                if (wb > zlemetacs)
                    zlemetacs = wb;
                we -= skipchars;
+               offs -= skipchars;
            }
            /* we need to get rid of all the quotation bits... */
            while (skipchars--)