Dilwyn Jones writes, >>I fell foul of it today again, after a good half hour's work ;o(( In <> > Assuming you are referring to Xchange Quill, this also occurs in
Silly me! Of course I meant Quill. > standard Quill and it has happened to me so many times I now routinely > save before attempting to scroll upward through text. > It might be my imagination, but it seems to happen less frequently in > Xchange than in standard Quill. And seems to happen less frequently on > a fast system, though that may be a red herring. I seem to recall that it only started in the last QL version of Quill (v2.01?). > Years ago, someone tried to explain to me it is because the paragraph > table becomes unsynchronised, possibly due to a timing error between > the 'jobs' Quill uses as data areas, or immediately after editing the > paragraph table is not fully updated. I can't remember, unfortunately, > who told me about it, but there was no cure except to avoid scrolling > up line by line unless you saved first. My experience being that it > never happens immediately after you have saved (sod's law). > > Where I need to backtrack, I usually Goto a previous page and scroll > down, or use search to find a reference rather than backtrack to it, > the only workarounds I've known. Im also very careful and employ similar paranoid workarounds (I even catch myself doing so in &[EMAIL PROTECTED] Word), but sooner or later it always gets me - inevitably when its least convenient! If there were just a known address to jump to when this happens (via jmon) then one could at least rescue one's work! Per _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
