[texworks] line numbers Merge and text disappears

[Paul A Norman]

Just to confirm - I can turn off line numbers in a previously saved
document (call it "X" here) which is showing its line numbers.

It still shows its line numbers during the current session.

All new files created simply with File/ New will correctly not have
line numbers.

Edit/preferences correctly shows line numbers as un-ticked

I can then Quit TeXworks.

Re-start TeXworks.

Reopen my document called "X" and it still shows line numbers, but
Edit/preferences still shows line numbers as un-ticked.

File/New documents as expected do not have line numbers.

Paul

On 4 February 2011 20:56, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 February 2011 19:56, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Strange, I've never seen anything like that before. Is it reproducible?
>
> Its fickle so far as I can tell yet. Seems more likely to happen to a
> long document.
>
>>
>> On 2011-01-30 06:38, Paul A Norman wrote:
>>> Ok, I turned off line numbers in Preferences and nothing repainted, so
>>> I thought I'd restart TeXworks.
>>>
>>> Restarted Tw and re-opened document - hey the line numbers were still showing!
>>>
>>> So looked in preferences and the check box was un-ticked. but line
>>> numbers were showing...
>>
>> This is strange, too - and I can't reproduce it. Did you use "Format ->
>> Line Numbers"?
>
>>  And what "lineNumbers=" value does your TeXworks.conf
>> show
>
> Dear Stefan,
>
> I can not find that file I've looked  everywhere
>
>  - is it the .ini   in <TeXworks>/TUG/TeXworks.ini that is one that is changing?
>
> If so it seems to keep track ok.
>
> However are line numbers in the current document meant to disappear
> when you change the preference while in that document(?), because that
> is not happening.
>
> And is anything of this sort of action stored in TeXworks.ini  with
> the encoded info in it for recent documents?
>
> Paul
>
>
>> (IIRC, you're running in portable mode, so you should have such a
>> settings file).
>
> Yes I'm using portable.
>
>>
>> HTH
>> Stefan
>>
>