fish-shell/fish-shell — pull request #1653 by kballard (2014-08-28 20:31:09+00:00)
Title: Fix the assertion failure in expand_variables()

expand_variables() is slightly confused about how to handle last_idx. On
input, it expects it to be the index to start processing at, but when
called recursively it always passes the current index. This means that
it may sometimes pass an index 1 past the end of the input string.
Notably, that happens when typing something like

> echo "$foo

(where "foo" is any string that is not a prefix of some existing
variable name)

Fix this by explicitly defining last_idx as being the last processed
index, meaning the next index to process is actually last_idx-1. This
means we should call it with next.size() instead of next.size()-1.