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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Eric wrote:

> Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> > The offending input is obvious:
> >
> > \newcommand{\tmtextbf}[1]{\tmtextbf{#1}}
> > \newcommand{\subsection}{{\macro{{\macro{1}{{\medskip}{\bigskip}
> > {\noindent}\tmtextbf{{\Large }}}}}}}
> >
> > Texmacs interprets this as a command to go into an infinite loop, and 
> > after a couple of hundred iterations, it mercifully throws a 
> > segmentation fault and crashes.
>
> Thanks. Anyone know why Texmacs generated this LaTeX?
I know that the TeXmacs -> LaTeX translator is
written in Scheme, and that it's located in:

src/TeXmacs/progs

in the TeXmacs codebase. It's not impossible
to read and fix the code, then send a patch,
for such a bug.