[isabelle-dev] jedit Replace & Find

[Tobias Nipkow]

Thanks for looking into it. I will upgrade to Montain Lion soon and will test it
myself again.

Tobias

Am 19/11/2012 17:10, schrieb Makarius:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Tobias Nipkow wrote:
> 
>> Am 16/11/2012 14:47, schrieb Makarius:
>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Tobias Nipkow wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is what you should not do: search and replace a string selectively that
>>>> occurs many times in a theory. I did this twice (the second time to see if
>>>> it was repeatable), using Replace & Find, and after about 50 replacements,
>>>> jedit went all funny and screwed up the window manager on my mac. Once I
>>>> managed to log out (and back in), the window manager was fine again.
>>>
>>> Did you ever see this incident with Mac OS X again?
>>
>> Yes, I just retried and the beahviour is unchanged (it may have take a bit
>> longer to provoke it). Open Wellfounded.thy and replace wf by something, that
>> does it.
> 
> This way I managed to reproduce the problem after some rounds of clicking, using
> Snow Leopard both with the native "Mac OS X" and "Nimbus" look & feel. Mountain
> Lion appears to work, at least I did not see anything bad after trying the same
> 4-5 times longer than on Snow Leopard.
> 
> So it might be just bad luck of Java 7 on Snow Leopard.  Oracle says it does
> nothing against it nor for it.  So if Java 7 happens to work on what Apple
> considers legacy already, it is mere luck.
> 
> 
>     Makarius