[texworks] Problem with line mangling (was: Problem with autocompletion)

[Paul A Norman]

Hi,

> in particular for
> long (1000+ lines) documents

I had it happening to me while recently testing for it, in a second
re-opened document (a letter) where \end{document} is at only line 192

I'll look at cleaning up and posting my (auto)back-up scripts, can be
run manually or on hooks, and allows for `remembered' custom
directories for backup location.

(Helps in trace back for clean up of a doc if line merge mess-up
wasn't noticed and confusing changes were made - peace of mind at
least, you can actually miss noticing the line-number pileups when
focussed on re-editing).

I am also wondering if this could have happened to me in the past when
line numbers were turned off, as I have found areas later on a reopen,
where I have re-typed almost identical text on a previous edit, in the
same general location areas as the original text, which I might have
previously been putting down to bad work habits due to late night
work—now I am not so sure it was the late nights.

> TeXworks crashes

I haven't had an actual crash from this for a long time (months).

I understand there may be other open source edit components for Qt, I
think I posted on one a few months ago that has text folding and other
features actually pre-built into it - caveats  I do not know whether
it inherits form the component we are having trouble with anyway, and
I have NO idea what would be involved, or whether it would be a curve
ball on the progress on Tw as it stands already.

http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/texworks/2011q1/003694.html

Paul

On 7 July 2011 18:04, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2011-06-29 11:21, T T wrote:
>>> Of course, I'd like to see the bugfix included if possible, but there's
>>> no need to scrap already-printed DVDs (I'm exaggerating here, of course ;)).
>>>
>>> If r855 indeed fixes the problem (as it appears to), I intend to publish
>>> 0.4.3 when I get home from work (probably in about 8 hours).
>>>
>>> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>> No problem, bugs happen, that's just part of the process.  If Karl
>> doesn't object, I'll update TW tonight, otherwise we have the first
>> bullet point for "known issues" list of TL'11 ;)
>
> it would seem we do have a bullet point for you after all. As Alain
> Delmotte reported on another thread, the "line mangling" issue wasn't
> resolved completely after all. So I'd suggest something along the lines
> of the following:
> * TeXworks, as distributed, sometimes mangles lines, in particular for
> long (1000+ lines) documents. When moving the cursor across such lines,
> TeXworks crashes. As a workaround, disable and re-enable "Line Numbers".
> Investigations of this problem are ongoing and the issue will be fixed
> in the repository as soon as a patch is available.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>