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From: hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Infinite replace in textedit
Keywords: Windows
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Date: 12 Jun 91 19:40:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 108, message 2
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We have just discovered an interesting bug in textedit under OpenLook.
Say I am editing a file containing the word myfile only once. If in the
Text:Find and Replace menu I put myfile in the Find field and put
../myfile in the Replace field, then press the Replace All button, the
editor goes into an infinite loop replacing myfile with ../myfile over and
over.

Can others duplicate this? It seems like a great party trick. :-)

Hugh Fader
hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com