[Info-vax] bizarre SEARCH bug (7.3-2 Alpha)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qqfi0d$lfc$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> On 11/12/2019 12:39 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> > helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> >
> >> What is strange is that the second "]" is not highlighted.  The text
> >> contains many examples of two of each in one line, and the others look
> >> OK, whether or not there is text between the matching pairs or not.
> >
> > Looking through the audit trail, I see a fix in SEARCH.B32 of a problem where
> > SEARCH fails to highlight some instances of a matching string. November 2005.
> >
> > <cue Hoff and old software>
> >
> 
> The more I thought about this, which wasn't much, I came to the 
> conclusion that it just about had to be a problem in SEARCH.
> 
> If the terminal / emulator highlighted one string, then why not another? 
>   Highly doubtful it was the terminal.
> 
> I also cannot imagine the network, wire, or whatever removing the 
> commands to highlight, consistently.

Right.

> That leaves SEARCH as the likely culprit.  However, it does not have the 
> problem on my VAX / VMS V7.2 system.  So how did it get screwed up on 
> Alpha 7.3?  That is what I find interesting.

It is now clear that SEARCH has the problem on 7.3-2.  I'm also 
wondering how such a bug was introduced.