In the recent years there were a few reports in the bug tracker
regarding TeXmacs crashing. Many of them are related to using several
windows (when you say working with several buffers, is it in a single
window?).
In my experience (using linux), TeXmacs crashes much less than what you
describe (except when hacking in scheme, but that doesn't count!).
However -somewhat corroborating your observations- I rarely have more
than two buffers open, I never use the drawing tool nor the replace tool
in math mode. I do have a number of images linked (*not* embedded) in my
documents, though.
I doubt the problems you encounter are specific to MacOS, and therefore
running TeXmacs in a virtual machine would probably only make your life
more complicated. OTOH I think you should try the newest version. As far
as I can tell it is not less stable than 1.99.4. In case of doubt,
backing up/restoring the old installation is as simple as renaming a
folders.
I was just wondering how often TeXMacs freezes for you all, andIf you could help ironing out these nasty crashes, that would be
whether I should invest some time into trying to fix things
extremely welcome. Good bug reports for reproducible crashes, or crashes
with backtraces would be nice.
I would also like to know how much effort would be required to makeFor this, Joris may have an idea. You should directly get in touch with him.
TeXMacs a really robust piece of software. In particular, would anyone
have an order of magnitude estimate of the financial cost?
best,
Philippe
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