commit 8ada6aa9298b4764d9ca0024dd21b17e815595ce
author Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Tue Dec 19 21:23:21 2017 +0100
committer Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Tue Dec 19 21:23:21 2017 +0100
tree 62c0e569a6a0ec13d41098dc737c43bac94d0ee7
parent 4ce46c2a6b59586e329fb41ad25799872bffc2c8

patch 8.0.1416: crash when searching for a sentence

Problem:    Crash when searching for a sentence.
Solution:   Return NUL when getting character at MAXCOL. (closes #2468)

src/testdir/test_search.vim

diff --git a/src/testdir/test_search.vim b/src/testdir/test_search.vim
index cb65fbf..84edfbb 100644
--- a/src/testdir/test_search.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/test_search.vim
@@ -729,3 +729,10 @@
   call search(getline("."))
   bwipe!
 endfunc
+
+func Test_search_sentence()
+  new
+  " this used to cause a crash
+  call assert_fails("/\\%'", 'E486')
+  call assert_fails("/", 'E486')
+endfunc