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[TeXmacs] How often does TeXMacs freeze for you?


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  • From: Michael Snarski <address@hidden>
  • To: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: [TeXmacs] How often does TeXMacs freeze for you?
  • Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:17:45 -0400
Hi all,

I was just wondering how often TeXMacs freezes for you all, and whether I should invest some time into trying to fix things or if I should just deal with it. I'm running TeXMacs 1.99.4 (scared of 1.99.5) on Mac OS X, Yosemite 10.10.4. 

On a typical workday I write math in TeXMacs about 1-2 hours and usually get 1 crash per day. This happens when I have many buffers open (4+), and I save, and the error is usually some segmentation fault. When I open up TeXMacs again, all the "recent" files and files in the "Go" tab are from a 2-3 weeks before. 

Number of crashes goes up dramatically whenever I:
  • Import or Link images 
  • Use the drawing tool
  • Use the "replace" tool in math mode
I'm very happy to continue using TeXMacs over anything else. I used LaTeX for about four years and am pretty good at it, but it can't beat having everything on one screen. I would simply want to know whether my experience is par for the course, or whether I might benefit from, say, emulating a Windows machine and running an .exe. I reinstall TeXMacs regularly and it seems to work better for a while then. 

I would also like to know how much effort would be required to make TeXMacs a really robust piece of software. In particular, would anyone have an order of magnitude estimate of the financial cost? 

Thanks,

Michael

  • [TeXmacs] How often does TeXMacs freeze for you?, Michael Snarski, 09/19/2016

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