Re: [TeXstudio-list] Problems with TexStudio 260(SVN 4047)

[Jerry <je...@se...>]

On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:49:28 +0200
Tim Hoffmann articulated:

> Am 03.07.2013 11:28, schrieb Jerry:
> > I use to be able to right click on a package and then click the
> > "Open Package Documentation" and view the packages documentation.
> > That no longer works consistently. Packages like "fancyhdr" or
> > "fancyref" no longer work. Absolutely nothing happens. Not even an
> > error message. Other packages do seem to work. Obviously I have not
> > tried every single package available. It use to be if a package did
> > not have documentation, I would be given a warning message. I know
> > that these packages did work in the past. I have MikTeX installed
> > if that makes any difference.
> This happens if the documentation is a non-PDF format and you have 
> enabled Config -> Advanced Editor -> Show help on commands in
> internal pdf viewer.
> I've committed a fix to the SVN so that we fall back to external
> viewers for non-PDF documentation. Until the next
> release, you may deactivate above option. Then everything will work
> as before.

Thanks! Fixed and works fine again.

> > Also, this version of TexStudio seems to like to hang and crash for
> > no apparent reason. In documents in the 50 +/- page range,
> > TexStudio will hang while compiling for several minutes and then
> > suddenly crash. There does not seem to be any apparently pattern to
> > these sudden happenings either. It just seems to happen from time
> > to time. I never had this problem before with the older version.
> Unless you have any hints under which condition that happens, it will
> be hard to track this down.

I am trying to figure out how to get a back-trace or something on this.
It is really strange. If I restart the program on the same file after a
crash, it will hang and crash again. I have to reboot the machine and
then it works all right, at least for a while. I never saw anything
like it before.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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