On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 02:44:56PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 06:33:28PM +0100, Guillaume M-M wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> 2) an assertion violation that happen on copy-paste with preview (does 
>> >>> not
>> >>> happen without preview). This is a regression in master, does not happen 
>> >>> in
>> >>> the stable branch.
>> >>
>> >> I can reproduce the assertion. Bisect points at 73460423 and it was
>> >> backported to stable at 6ac04e21 where it asserts in the same way.
>> >
>> > Ah thank you for catching this and bisecting. I will revert in branch
>> > and master.
>>
>> Can someone please confirm that I should indeed revert?
>> I took a look at lyx-preview-explosion.lyx and I can indeed reproduce
>> the assertion. My guess though is that the referenced commits expose a
>> different bug that has to do with previews and macros. But in the end
>> from a user perspective it is a regression. Thus, I think I should
>> revert.
>
> Wouldn't it be better trying to understand why it asserts such that it
> can be avoided?

Yes much better. However, we are close to release so I was thinking to
revert in the meantime. And second, I don't understand the underlying
code involving macros at all so it would be up to someone else to do
that. From what I remember of previous issues regarding preview +
macro, this is a complicated issue over my head.

Scott

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