davidgiven
Wordgrinder crashes suddenly when highlighting while deleting
A few times I've found myself highlighting backwards, "Cursor Left", and then cutting or deleting the text -- then at the moment of deletion wordgrinder crashes without saving.
Both times it left this traceback:
Lua error: [string "src/lua/redraw.lua"]:180: word 82 not in para 29 of len 81 stack traceback: [C]: in function 'error' [string "src/lua/redraw.lua"]:180: in function 'redraw' [string "src/lua/forms.lua"]:528: in function 'redraw_dialogue' [string "src/lua/forms.lua"]:613: in function 'Run' [string "src/lua/ui.lua"]:99: in function 'ModalMessage' [string "src/lua/main.lua"]:228: in function 'WordProcessor' [string "src/lua/main.lua"]:373: in function <[string "src/lua/main.lua"]:239>
I'm not sure what it means, but it has happened twice now (same traceback), and I am posting it here because I figure such sudden crashes are probably not good for data integrity.
I can't reliably reproduce the error, it seems to involve something subtle about highlighting and deleting at the same time.
Okay, that's bad. Could you tell me what version you're using? Also, are you using shift+cursor keys selection or ctrl+space mark selection?
In addition, if this is crashing completely rather than putting up a stack trace in a dialogue box, that's really weird. It's supposed to catch this kind of error and attempt to continue.
wordgrinder 0.8. I use generally use both ways for selection, and can't remember what I did. I wish I could tell you. I tried to reproduce the error. All I can clearly remember is that I was highlighting and deleting stuff pretty fast.
Yes, I just want to confirm it was a total crash. The stack trace was left somehow in the terminal both times the app crashed, but only the second time was I able to read it. The first time the lines had gotten corrupted somehow.