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bug #66360: {execute} in MFINDINHELP crashes nano

Submitter:  Max <mjango>
Submitted:  Sun 20 Oct 2024 09:45:03 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Wontfix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

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Mon 28 Oct 2024 07:56:51 AM UTC, comment #8: 

Hi Max! Benno alerted me to the fact that I have a new friend who likes crazy string binds / string macros. Nice to meet you :)

You didn't mention what you were trying to do in the first place. It might interesting to hear, and perhaps I may be able to help you. (and also, it may be interesting to see if what you're trying to do is easily solvable with 'enact') :)

Having said that, to avoid spamming the bugtracker, please email me instead; my email is my username from here, @hotmail.com.

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Tasos Papastylianou <tpapastylianou>
Wed 23 Oct 2024 09:46:41 AM UTC, comment #7: 

The proposed patch is not something for nano -- having an unbound toggle available in every menu for something that only a handful of users might sometimes want... that's ugly.

By the way, {enter} works fine in the {whereis} menu -- you've added it to the {browser} menu.  When doing that, you may also have to add {home} and {end} and other such movement functions.  Or... you could check whether is_universal() returns TRUE, but that still misses {prevblock} and {nextblock}.

Anyway, the few people who use string binds creatively are perfectly able to modify nano themselves to suit their needs.  Things to be added to nano itself should be useful to a considerable number of users and should be relatively easy to understand.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Tue 22 Oct 2024 09:06:17 PM UTC, comment #6: 


comment #5:

> (It could be made to cancel that too, but then the `persist` keyword would become an unfitting name...)


Yes, that is what I meant, I think something like the attached patch should work for that (I think it's attached, I'm not quite sure). It uses `errors` to toggle errors instead of both persist and dontpersist, which seems to be the style other nano functions use (such as `casesens` and all the `flip...` functions), I also changed `enter`` to work on many more menus, such as `whereis`.

(file #56566)

Max <mjango>
Tue 22 Oct 2024 09:28:38 AM UTC, comment #5: 

You must be kidding me -- another "creative" user of string binds?!  :)

Combining Tasos's persist/dontpersist patch with this new "wrong menu" patch would still prevent using braced function names in menus where they don't exist -- the persist/dontpersist patch doesn't cancel that.  (It could be made to cancel that too, but then the `persist` keyword would become an unfitting name...)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Mon 21 Oct 2024 10:34:05 PM UTC, comment #4: 

comment #3:

> But... applying the attached patch should prevent the crash and show an error message instead.  --  I'm not sure if I want to apply it, though, as it would also prevent users from getting creative and doing things that are not really supported but that somehow work.


Thank you! You are correct on both accounts, it no longer crashes for me, and it does break some of my more "creative" string binds (although v8.0 already broke the really fun ones, so I've been using Tasos's {persist}/{dontpersist} patch from here, is there any chance of that getting into nano? It seems like that patch combined with this new patch would be great at providing a very normal experience for most, while also allowing for some crazier string binds).

I'll just be careful not to try to use {execute} when in MFINDINHELP, thank you!

Max <mjango>
Mon 21 Oct 2024 09:45:29 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Okay, I can now reproduce, after adding 'set multibuffer' to the crashrc file.  Thanks.

Locally I've improved the relevant wording in the documentation, to mention also a possible crash.

But... applying the attached patch should prevent the crash and show an error message instead.  --  I'm not sure if I want to apply it, though, as it would also prevent users from getting creative and doing things that are not really supported but that somehow work.


(file #56562)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sun 20 Oct 2024 05:13:50 PM UTC, comment #2: 

comment #1:

> Can you reproduce it with the above file and command?

Ah, sorry! I cannot. However I was able to reproduce it with this as 'crashrc':

set multibuffer
bind ^L "{help}{whereis}{execute}{enter}" main


> So... crashes are to be expected for miscomposed string binds.

Sounds good, I wasn't sure if crashes fell under "strange behavior".

If you still need my CFLAGS, they are "-g -O2 -Wall"

Max <mjango>
Sun 20 Oct 2024 10:19:41 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for reporting, but... I cannot reproduce it.  I've created a file 'crashrc' with the following content:

bind ^L "{help}{whereis}{execute}{enter}" main

Then I run `src/nano --rc=crashrc` and type ^L.  It just says "[ Cancelled ]" on the status bar, no crash.  Can you reproduce it with the above file and command?  If so, what are your CFLAGS?  (Mine are "-g -O2 -std=c11 -march=native".)

But... using a braced function name in a menu where it does not exist is not supported.  In `man nanorc` it says: """...nano  checks at execution time that the function exists but not whether it makes any sense in the current menu.  The user has to take care that a function name between braces (or any sequence of them) is appropriate.  Strange behavior can result when it is not."""  So... crashes are to be expected for miscomposed string binds.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sun 20 Oct 2024 09:45:03 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

While messing around with string binds, I found one that can crash nano: `bind ^l "{help}{whereis}{execute}{enter}" main`

I have tested on v8.2, v8.0, and v7.2, all from git and compiled with `--disable-justify --disable-libmagic --enable-utf8`.

Max <mjango>

 

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Attached Files
file #56566:  toggle-errors.patch added by mjango (4KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2024-11-04 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2024-10-22 mjango Attached File- Added toggle-errors.patch, #56566
    2024-10-22 bens StatusReady for test Wontfix
    2024-10-21 bens StatusNeed info Ready for test
    2024-10-21 bens Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
    2024-10-21 bens Attached File- Added check-that-braced-function-exists-in-menu.patch, #56562
    2024-10-20 bens StatusNone Need info

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