Try to search for the string "-west" in quicksearch (Ctrl-S).
As soon as you type the "w", the search exits with the error
message "can't find window".
(There is surely some missing end-of-flags double-dash missing
somewhere...)
Aaaargh! This is a nasty bug! Nothing to do with quick find in particular, this is a flaw in the core when it parses the arguments of a command looking for a -w option. A very simple way to reproduce this in the Tcl shell:
Aaaargh! This is a nasty bug! Nothing to do with quick find in particular, this is a flaw in the core when it parses the arguments of a command looking for a -w option. A very simple way to reproduce this in the Tcl shell:
Thank you for catching this, it's amazing it was not discovered earlier. I'll fix it.
This is fixed.
Changes committed to the repository (rev. 1844). The core must be rebuilt.