[Bug: 21.5-b27] Query/Replace string starting with TAB character crashes X

[Dan Krejsa]

Thanks, Stephen!

I'm actually using 

  xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.7.fc6

which is release 7.1.1; I guess it may have a similar problem
to that you mention from XFree86.  I'll look in that direction.
  
- Dan

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:04 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Dan Krejsa writes:
> 
>  > While editing a C header file I use Alt-% to do a Query Replace.
>  > If the Query string I enter starts with a tab character, when
>  > I hit the Enter key to terminate the Query string, X/Gnome crashes
> 
> If a program crashes, it's the program's bug.  X11 is famous for doing
> almost no sanity checking on arguments for internal functions; this
> kind of crash is a not uncommon result.
> 
> >From PROBLEMS (this version has not been released in 21.4 yet):
> 
> *** XEmacs and the X server crash when inserting or displaying a TAB character.
> 
> If you are using the XFree86 distribution, you need an X server with
> this patch applied:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=2016
> 
> Versions of XFree86 previous to that crashed when an app tried to draw a
> literal tab character using many fonts. 
>