Bug#179056: vim: Crash on too long argument on keypress

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

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tags 179056 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

> I provided vim with a single very long argument, like:
>  $ vim "$(cat something)"
>=20
> "something" is filled with lines of filenames; output from "find".
> This appears to happen if the argument is over 1K bytes.
>=20
> <r/1043662594.558_5:2,S^@./Mail/tu/cur/104343424Illegal file name
> First, vim complains "Illegal filename". If I press 'i' to start editing =
and
> then press Enter, it says:

I tried with a 3000 lines file generated via find, but I was unable to
reproduce the bug. Are you still able to?

If not I will close this bug.

Thanks for your report.
Cheers.

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Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy
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