patch 8.0.1416: crash when searching for a sentence commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/8ada6aa9298b4764d9ca0024dd21b17e815595ce Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Dec 19 21:23:21 2017 +0100 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 https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/2468)

--- a/src/misc1.c
+++ b/src/misc1.c
@@ -2650,8 +2650,12 @@ del_lines(
     int
 gchar_pos(pos_T *pos)
 {
-    char_u	*ptr = ml_get_pos(pos);
-
+    char_u	*ptr;
+
+    /* When searching columns is sometimes put at the end of a line. */
+    if (pos->col == MAXCOL)
+	return NUL;
+    ptr = ml_get_pos(pos);
 #ifdef FEAT_MBYTE
     if (has_mbyte)
 	return (*mb_ptr2char)(ptr);