Ctrl-Z characters inserted in text after hitting Shift-C

[franckinux]

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VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compilé Feb 01 2022 09:16:32)
Rustines incluses : 1-2269, 3612, 3625, 3669, 3741

Operating System: Linux Mint 20.3 /
Linux 5.8.0-63-generic #71~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 15 17:46:08 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

What went wrong

Ctrl-Z characters are inserted continuously.

This behaviour has been introduced by commit a918f8c.

Reproducing the bug

In normal mode, when hitting Shift-C to change the text from the current position to the end of the line, Ctrl-Z characters are inserted in an infinite loop.

:ALEInfo

Current Filetype: nerdtree
Available Linters: []
Enabled Linters: []
Ignored Linters: []
Suggested Fixers:
'remove_trailing_lines' - Remove all blank lines at the end of a file.
'trim_whitespace' - Remove all trailing whitespace characters at the end of every line.
Linter Variables:
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let g:ale_virtualtext_cursor = 0
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[hsanson]

@franckinux thanks for the report. Would be possible for you to test this fix #4250?

[hsanson]

Fixed by #4250