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[vincent douce <address@hidden>]

i experience crashes at least 1-2 times each week, especially when i do cmd+shift+R (reactualize everything)

i notice the crashes never happen on .tm files recently created : but only with .tm files that were often opened, closed, opened, closed along the time

what happen in this cases is that the vision of the window remains but the bars of defilement on the right side move without the that the content of the window move and i can not write anything ; i have then to force TeXmacs to leave, and since i always have 2-3 .tm files opened at the same time, it forces me to reopen everything

that’s why now i have developped some habits :

- i do always keep opened (behind the .tm window) the Finder windows where the .tm file is, 

- i do never reactualize (cmd+shift+R) any .tm opened file when i am intensively working or when i give a lesson by zoom

Vincent

Le 2 mai 2023 à 18:47, Bimal Gaudel <address@hidden> a écrit :

I am making my presentations completely from scratch, other than including screenshot images from other presentation softwares.

Thank you for your response. I will keep that in mind.

On May 2, 2023, at 12:33 PM, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> wrote:

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>