Hi, Reproduction steps: 1. emacs -Q 2. ;"paste the evil install script [code1]" 3. M-x eval-buffer 4. C-h i 5. C-12 j ;"move cursor to evil node/topic/section" 6. /info ;"use evil-search-forward and type 'info'" 7. ;"END emacs@27.2 will crash to desktop" Alternative reproduction steps 1. emacs -Q 2. ;"paste the evil install script [code1]" 3. M-x eval-buffer 4. C-h i 5. k ;"move cursor to first line, which is '(dir)Top'" 6. M-x evil-search-forward dirtop ;"use evil-search-forward and type 'dirtop'" 7. ;"END emacs@27.2 will crash to desktop" [code1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil ```emacs-lisp ;; Set up package.el to work with MELPA (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")) (package-initialize) (package-refresh-contents) ;; Download Evil (unless (package-installed-p 'evil) (package-install 'evil)) ;; Enable Evil (require 'evil) (evil-mode 1) ``` I'm able to reproduce with emacs@27.2 using manjaro linux and macos@10.15.7 Initial report can be found here: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil/issues/1546 ==== auto generated message below using report-emacs-bug ==== In GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.27, cairo version 1.17.4) of 2021-03-27 built on juergen Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101001 System Description: Manjaro Linux Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-wide-int --with-modules --with-cairo --with-harfbuzz 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: en_PH.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_PH.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: en_PH.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_PH.utf8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: override-global-mode: t global-undo-tree-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t evil-mode: t evil-local-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cl-extra help-mode use-package-ensure use-package-bind-key bind-key easy-mmode use-package-core undo-tree diff evil evil-keybindings evil-integration evil-maps evil-commands reveal flyspell ispell evil-jumps evil-command-window evil-search evil-ex shell pcomplete comint ansi-color evil-types evil-macros evil-repeat evil-states evil-core advice evil-common windmove calc calc-loaddefs calc-macs thingatpt rect evil-digraphs evil-vars ring edmacro kmacro gruvbox-theme gruvbox autothemer dash info package easymenu browse-url url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 128548 7194) (symbols 48 13606 1) (strings 32 37114 2101) (string-bytes 1 1238285) (vectors 16 21666) (vector-slots 8 240940 9068) (floats 8 56 35) (intervals 56 280 0) (buffers 1000 12)) Kind regards, Arvin