From e85687784a5549c59f5f90f2d2c324a8ce7f8d8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jakewvincent <jakewvincent@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:27:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Prevent infinite loop by using custom gmatch iterator
 (#237)

---
 lua/mkdnflow/links.lua | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lua/mkdnflow/links.lua b/lua/mkdnflow/links.lua
index d6804d1..9934cef 100644
--- a/lua/mkdnflow/links.lua
+++ b/lua/mkdnflow/links.lua
@@ -865,8 +865,12 @@ M.createLink = function(args)
             -- is, perform the search until a match is found whose right edge follows
             -- the cursor position
             if cursor_word ~= '' then
-                while right < col do
-                    left, right = string.find(line, cursor_word, right, true)
+                for _left, _right in utils.betterGmatch(line, cursor_word) do
+                    if _right >= col then
+                        left = _left
+                        right = _right
+                        break
+                    end
                 end
             else
                 left, right = col + 1, col