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[Robert Jerrard <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 02:02 +0000, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:27:10 -0700, Robert Jerrard wrote:
> > 
> > on a Ubuntu gutsy install on a laptop. When going to the
> > Help->Search->Documentation I get
> 
> Cannot reproduce your problem on Debian Sid using
> 
> ii  texmacs        1:1.0.6.11-2
> ii  texmacs-common 1:1.0.6.11-2
> ii  texmacs-extra- 0.2         
> 
> Either your problem is specific to Ubuntu or it has been fixed in later 
> versions. 

The versions I have are the latest in gutsy and gutsy is the second
least stable setup in Ubuntu. When I was at feisty, one step more
stable, the version of texmacs and maxima that the distribution had was
not recent enough which was one of the main reasons I moved to gutsy. 

The version I have on my desktop is Debian/Sid and it works there for me
also and the versions are

ii  texmacs 1:1.0.6.11-1 
ii  texmacs-common 1:1.0.6.11-1 
ii  texmacs-extra-fonts 0.2  

which appear to be less recent than my Ubuntu install.

> Also did you try starting texmacs after (re)moving ~/.TeXmacs? 
> Sometimes it helps.

After removing ~/.TeXmacs and trying again, I got the same result

<unnamed port>: In procedure scm_lreadr in expression (primitive-load
name):
<unnamed port>: /usr/share/texmacs/TeXmacs/progs/doc/docgrep.scm:60:56:
illegal character in escape sequence: #\`

from the first use of Help->Search->Documentation but when I tried again
texmacs.bin ran amok, using 99.9% of the CPU and never returned or
crashing, I had to kill the process from the F1 console.
 
Thanks anyway, I guess I will just not use the Search on the laptop
until the next upgrade.

Bob
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