[texworks] Problem with line mangling

[Paul A Norman]

HI,

There seem to have been some connected issues for a while possibly as
far back as 2009 depending on the true status/nature of this report.
http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=176&can=1&q=line%20number

Definitely pre February 2011
http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=469&can=1&q=line%20number

I wrote that up after it had been around for a little while, if that
helps to determine the Qt version number.

>>> 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
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> Are you talking about 0.4.3 (or a later version), or about the recent
> attempt in r862, or something else?

When testing r855 http://tug.org/pipermail/texworks/2011q3/004498.html

Stefan, your point about memory -- my short document was opened second
after a much much longer one.

Paul




On 7 July 2011 20:19, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2011, at 09:12, Stefan Löffler wrote:
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>> I can't say, of course. My current hypothesis is that the problem
>> appears when Qt is trying to put text into a window that has not been
>> shown. Maybe it is even some kind of race condition that occurs only
>> when the window is shown while the text is not yet fully ready. But I
>> haven't been able to make heads or tails of the Qt internals yet.
>> Anyway, this is consistent with my tests (opening a file from the file
>> manager vs. opening it into an empty, unmodified document (in which case
>> the empty window is reused and thus shown already)). Plus, the race
>> condition would explain why this is fickle (different computer work
>> loads cause different processing times), and why it happens
>> predominantly in long documents (if that's the case).
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> Given that we've had the line numbering for quite a while, but the reports of this problem seem fairly recent (or have I forgotten older ones?), I wonder if it could be related to changes, perhaps even a bug, in a relatively recent Qt release. Would it be feasible to try building with an older Qt that predates the problem reports, and see if this affects it?
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