Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:35:57 -0800
To: bugs@debian.org
From: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>
Subject: vi (?) segfaults
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.4 (potato i386)

I suspect this problem is really for elvis-tiny 1.4-7, which dpkg showed as
installed, but I'm not 100% sure.  Please reassign as appropriate.  If I vi
sources.list and execute the command
        :1,44s/stable/potato/g
I get a segmentation fault.  Using % in place of 1,44 works alright.

After the seg fault, the file is locked, and can't be edited further.  I
had to reboot the system (I know there's a better way; fee free to
enlighten me) to access the file.  (Well, I also did a mv sources.list
s.l.bak; cp s.l.bak sources.list; rm s.l.bak.  But there's a better way
than that too, right?)

But to return the original subject: the file doesn't have 44 lines.  But a
segfault seems like a poor reaction to that problem...


From: "David Douthitt" <ssrat@mailbag.com>
To: miquels@cistron.nl
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:36:44 -0600
Subject: elvis-tiny
Message-ID: <3A37432C.147.3BB4F415@localhost>

I have a few fixes for elvis-tiny, one for bug #55407 (vi segfaults) 
and one for bug #73059 (substitute & fails on third substitution).

I've included them in the text below.  They're two separate patches; 
so cut them out into two files.

I don't know if I qualify as "maintainer" but I'll see if I can keep 
fixing and learning as time goes on.

--- a/ex.c
+++ b/ex.c
@@ -391,6 +391,11 @@ void doexcmd(cmdbuf)
 			msg("first address exceeds the second");
 			return;
 		}
+               if (markline(tomark) > markline(MARK_LAST))
+               {
+                       msg("there are only %d lines in the file", nlines);
+                       return;
+               }
 	}
 	isdfl = (scan == cmdbuf);