Matthew Wozniski wrote:
> To reproduce, do the following in a newly started vim:
>
> First enable 'h' moving between lines to give us a way to delete over
> BOL, though <left> would work if you're using gvim
> :set ww=h
>
> then, ix<CR><C-o>dh
>
> that is, insert a line containing "x", then try to delete over BOL
> without leaving insert mode from the next line. "x" can be replaced
> with any string, though not an empty line.
> Vim comes back with:
>
> E341: Internal error: lalloc(0, )
> cannot yank; delete anyway (y/n)?
>
> Which is bad enough, but if you say 'n' at the prompt, press enter
> to dismiss the new prompt ("E470: Command aborted Press ENTER or type
> command to continue"), then type 2 more characters as though you're
> still happily in insert mode, vim will SEGV because it screwed up it's
> internal idea of where the cursor is.
>
> This seems to be because both coladvance and nv_left increment the
> cursor column, resulting in an off-by-one error that eventually leads
> to yank_copy_line believing that no characters were affected and
> trying to allocate 0 space for the 0 characters (thus the E341). So,
> the fix seems to be that nv_left should only increment the cursor
> column if coladvance (or, more accurately, getvpos) has not already
> moved it.
>
> The following patch fixes it, but Bram or someone else more familiar
> with the codebase might well be able to suggest a better way.
I can reproduce it. Thanks for making a patch! I'll check that this is
the best way to solve it.
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