Crash when using backspace for replace

[MuenchenSued]

bulky 1.8 crashes, when I enter a backspace character in the replacement line without activating "regular expression" before. Also, if a backspace is present in the replace-field and a unselect regular expressions afterwards, it crashed (it hangs, no reaction, must be killed)

[MuenchenSued]

This also happens in bulky 2.1. To reproduce it, it is necessary to use it from nemo. Select any two files, call rename via RMB and enter a backslash into the "Replace:" line (in a german version this is called "Ersetzen:").

If you call it from the command line with e.g. "bulky *", you get a permanent message
"bad escape (end of pattern) at position 0"
so it should be easy to add an IF clause instead of throwing a permanent error message without the possibility to correct it by the user.

[wujastyk]

Bulky 2.1
System: Kernel: 5.13.0-44-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7
wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal

Same problem with entering a backslash character (\) in the replace field, either before or after selecting "regular expression". Program freezes and has to be manually killed.

[MuenchenSued]

A fix has already been implemented but a new version was not released up to now. I replaced my /usr/lib/bulky/bulky.py with the file https://github.com/linuxmint/bulky/blob/master/usr/lib/bulky/bulky.py and now it works without a crash.

[wujastyk]

Thank you, that worked!

[fenilgmehta]

I think we can close this issue as it has been fixed with the pull request #47