[texworks] line numbers Merge and text disappears

[Johannes Heck]

I've had a similar problem too right now, [TW 0.4.0 r.759 on Win 7 HP
32bit], reported it at the issue tracker.

Johannes

2011/2/8 Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com>

> Ok so the problem appeared again ...
>
> [image: TeXworks-02-linenumbersMerge_text-dissapears.jpg]
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> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13401476/general_images/TeXworks-02-linenumbersMerge_text-dissapears.jpg
>
> Using the format menu - turn line numbers off - then turn line numbers on
> ...
> [image: TeXworks-03-linenumbersMerge_text-dissapears.jpg]
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13401476/general_images/TeXworks-03-linenumbersMerge_text-dissapears.jpg
>
> I am sure this hadn't happened for a long time under previous versions of
> Qt with Tw.
>
> Put it up as an issue.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> On 5 February 2011 21:05, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2011-02-04 08:56, Paul A Norman wrote:
> >> On 3 February 2011 19:56, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > Seems we're still only left with fickle bugs nowadays ;).
> > It's also not document-specific (i.e., if it occurs in a document once,
> > it also occurs for that doc after restarting Tw), is it?
> >
> >>>  And what "lineNumbers=" value does your TeXworks.conf
> >>> show
> >> 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?
> >
> > Yes. It's called .conf on Linux, sorry for that - I was not quite sure
> > how it's called on Windows (it's Qt implementation-specific).
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > No. The preferences setting is sort of a default value used, e.g., for
> > new documents. Once a document has a setting, that is no longer affected
> > by the preferences. It can be changed in the "Format" menu, though.
> >
> >> And is anything of this sort of action stored in TeXworks.ini  with
> >> the encoded info in it for recent documents?
> >
> > I just checked, and indeed it is (src/TeXDocument.cpp, l. 1364). You
> > should be able to disable the recent file list, however, by setting
> > maxRecentFiles=0 in TeXworks.ini (though I never tried this).
> >
> > HTH
> > Stefan
> >
>
>
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