[texworks] Problem with search in all open files operation

[Wojciech Myszka]

Dear Stefan,

I think that the current version works ok again.

Thanks

Best regards
Wojtek

wt., 22 lut 2022 o 07:13 Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> napisał(a):

> Dear Wojtek,
>
> On 21.02.22 22:45, Wojciech Myszka wrote:
>
> There is something wrong with “Search all open files” operation.
>
>    1. I have created three identical files (let's say a[123].tex)
>    containing the first five paragraphs of lorem ipsum taken from
>    lipsum.com.
>    2. The first search for the word “Cras” gives the correct result:
>    lines no. 1, 5, and 9 (three times) in each file.
>    3. Starting the search in the first file (a1.tex) *after deletion* of
>    the last paragraph (now a1.tex is shorter, a2.tex and a3.tex are identical)
>    searching for “Cras” gives incorrect results (the word is found only *two
>    times* in each file — in lines 1 and 5)
>    4. Starting the search from a2.tex (or a3) — results are correct (two
>    times in a1, four times in a2 and a3)
>
> I do not know if I can explain this correctly.
>
>
> I could reproduce it so they explanation was good :). Thanks a lot for
> spotting this. It should be fixed in the code now (automated builds are
> running and should hopefully complete in the next couple of minutes).
>
> There is also another problem with searching through all open files,
> difficult to explain and describe:
>
>    - starting the search from the file where the search string is absent
>    gives a result *not found*
>    - starting from the file where the search string is present gives
>    *correct* results for this file and *wrong* results for other files
>    (please check the attachment, where each “found place” is marked blue; the
>    search word was “\\section”); well, OK—I really do not know when the
>    problem appears for the first time, but it used to work earlier.
>
>
> This is in fact the same problem. Essentially, instead of searching all
> open files, the code searched the same (current) file over and over again,
> just reporting the results (or lack thereof) as if they were coming from
> all the other open documents.
> And you are right, the bug seems to have been introduced back in June 2021
> in the course of some refactoring.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
>


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