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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

I use TeXmacs regularly also for presentations and I do not experience crashes (or at least only very rarely). If you are a new user it could happen that your way to use TeXmacs is very different from that of a more experieced user and this I believe could lead to some more instability. Would be nice to know how to do it, or what are the specific situations.

For example, I have a document which has a specific drawing which when I try to enter it with the cursor from the left it stalls TeXmacs and I have to kill it. I still need to find time to analyze why, but it is clearly reproducibe.

Once we have some reproducible situations, the developers can pin it down.

But as I told you, usually this does not happen, so if you cannot pin down the cause, maybe you can change slightly your way of working to avoid the unstable states of the program.

Is your presentation obtained via a conversion from a LaTeX presentation? Or you made it completely from scratch?

Best

Max

On 2 May 2023, at 17:20, Bimal Gaudel <address@hidden> wrote:

I probably should not have said 'recently' because I have been using TeXmacs for about two weeks only. It is true that recently I started using TeXmacs for beamer presentations. I doubt if other software updates (eg. gcc, openmpi etc), have anything to do with the crash. I will try to reproduce the crash.

On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 5:30 AM Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Bimal,

 it would be useful if you manage to single out a specific reproducible way to crash the program.

You mention an “increased instability recently”, with respect to what? What changed? Is some specific document which seems to trigger more crashes?

Thanks!
Max


> On 2 May 2023, at 04:46, Bimal Gaudel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I have been facing increased stability issues recently.
> The most common actions that lead to crashing of the app include:
> - exiting presentation mode for beamer documents
> - undo action while editing figures
> - working in beamer mode in general seems to lead to the problem
>
> I have attached a recent crash report here.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bimal Gaudel
> <texmacs.crash.txt>