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odamizu · 07-31-2019, 12:26 AM

This bug just occurred for me with 0.9.16 on macOS High Sierra. (I actually experienced this once before, but it was before any discussion had occurred and I thought it was just a fluke, so I restarted Sigil and didn't give it another thought.)

Unfortunately, I have not been able to reproduce it, but when it occurred, I was using Saved Searches to do an epub-wide search/replace. As I am trying to learn regex, I was hitting Find then Replace, checking after each button-click to see that it did what I wanted. I did this probably 50+ times in quick succession, with new tabs opening up as the search progressed so that I had perhaps 25+ tabs open. At some point I switched to the single Replace/Find button, clicking through rapidly one at a time. And then finally I started using Replace All.

I was doing this with a few different regex searches when I suddenly noticed that the Preview pane was not syncing with Code View. Instead, the Preview window stayed fixed at the top of the page, no matter where I was in Code View. However, clicking in Preview would cause Code View to sync to wherever Preview was. This happened with all open Code View tabs.

I tried closing all but one tab then reopening them, but this did not get the sync going again. When I closed the epub then reopened it, all was well again.

After this happened, I tried to reproduce the problem, but did not succeed.

I'm pretty sure the first time this happened (when I dismissed it as a fluke) I was also doing a Saved Search similar to this where I had a lot of tabs open and was clicking Find, Replace, and Replace/Find rapidly (as I said, I'm learning regex, so I wanted to make sure my regex was correct before committing to Replace All).

Now that I'm aware of this issue, I'll try to pay more attention so that if it happens again I can be more helpful

ETA: I launch Sigil by double-clicking on the epub.

07-31-2019, 12:26 AM	#32
odamizu just an egg Posts: 1,841 Karma: 8006346 Join Date: Mar 2015 Device: Kindle, iOS	This bug just occurred for me with 0.9.16 on macOS High Sierra. (I actually experienced this once before, but it was before any discussion had occurred and I thought it was just a fluke, so I restarted Sigil and didn't give it another thought.) Unfortunately, I have not been able to reproduce it, but when it occurred, I was using Saved Searches to do an epub-wide search/replace. As I am trying to learn regex, I was hitting Find then Replace, checking after each button-click to see that it did what I wanted. I did this probably 50+ times in quick succession, with new tabs opening up as the search progressed so that I had perhaps 25+ tabs open. At some point I switched to the single Replace/Find button, clicking through rapidly one at a time. And then finally I started using Replace All. I was doing this with a few different regex searches when I suddenly noticed that the Preview pane was not syncing with Code View. Instead, the Preview window stayed fixed at the top of the page, no matter where I was in Code View. However, clicking in Preview would cause Code View to sync to wherever Preview was. This happened with all open Code View tabs. I tried closing all but one tab then reopening them, but this did not get the sync going again. When I closed the epub then reopened it, all was well again. After this happened, I tried to reproduce the problem, but did not succeed. I'm pretty sure the first time this happened (when I dismissed it as a fluke) I was also doing a Saved Search similar to this where I had a lot of tabs open and was clicking Find, Replace, and Replace/Find rapidly (as I said, I'm learning regex, so I wanted to make sure my regex was correct before committing to Replace All). Now that I'm aware of this issue, I'll try to pay more attention so that if it happens again I can be more helpful ETA: I launch Sigil by double-clicking on the epub. Last edited by odamizu; 07-31-2019 at 12:33 AM.