[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#793107: octave: Find-replace hang when using regex searches with $

[D Haley <mycae@gmx.com>]

Package: octave
Version: 3.8.2-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Octave will hang (spin) when the following procedure is followed on my system (every time). 

1) Launch octave GUI
2) create a new file in the editor window, eg by using the "script" button (top left)
3) in the editor tab, in an unnamed file, enter the following data 1<LF>, where <LF> is done by tapping enter on the keyboard.
4) Use find-replace (Ctrl+F) , and tick Regular Expressions, then Find "$", replace with "," (no quotations).

* What was the outcome of this action?
5) Spin.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
5) Replacing $ with ,


Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless             2:1.7-52
ii  libamd2.3.1                      1:4.2.1-3
ii  libarpack2                       3.1.5-3
ii  libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3]  3.10.2-7
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]          1.2.20110419-10
ii  libc6                            2.19-18
ii  libcamd2.3.1                     1:4.2.1-3
ii  libccolamd2.8.0                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcholmod2.1.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcolamd2.8.0                   1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcxsparse3.1.2                 1:4.2.1-3
ii  libfftw3-double3                 3.3.4-2
ii  libfftw3-single3                 3.3.4-2
ii  libfltk-gl1.3                    1.3.2-6+b1
ii  libfltk1.3                       1.3.2-6+b1
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6                     2.5.2-3
ii  libgcc1                          1:5.1~rc1-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]         10.3.2-1
ii  libglpk36                        4.55-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]           9.0.0-2
ii  libgomp1                         5.1~rc1-1
ii  libgraphicsmagick++3             1.3.20-3+deb8u1
ii  libgraphicsmagick3               1.3.20-3+deb8u1
ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]      3.5.0-4
ii  liboctave2                       3.8.2-4
ii  libqhull6                        2012.1-5
ii  libqrupdate1                     1.1.2-1
ii  libqscintilla2-11                2.8.4+dfsg-1
ii  libqt4-network                   4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
ii  libqtcore4                       4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
ii  libqtgui4                        4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
ii  libstdc++6                       5.1~rc1-1
ii  libumfpack5.6.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.2-3
ii  octave-common                    3.8.2-4
ii  texinfo                          5.2.0.dfsg.1-6

Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii  gnuplot-x11     4.6.6-2
ii  libatlas3-base  3.10.2-7
ii  pstoedit        3.62-2+b1

Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn  octave-doc      <none>
pn  octave-htmldoc  <none>
pn  octave-info     <none>

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