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

[Tim Sneddon]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> 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.
>

Why?  Does it really matter?  Is it any business of anyone in this forum?
Not to mention, the organisation that made that change doesn't even exist
anymore.

Surely we have more interesting things to post about?  The signal to noise
ratio has certinaly improved, but the signal is so boring it's almost
not worth listening to.

Regards, Tim.