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[Gerhard Ecaroh Froehlich <gerhard.froehlich@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi ZIM List!

I am new here. Some days ago i initialy contacted Jaap to clear some 
details. From now on i will use the bug reports and the mailing-list. 

To share my first steps with ZIM below my first post.

On Montag 18 Januar 2010 Jaap wrote:
> Hi Gerhard,

> > I will report bugs to launchpad. One thing i did not find there is:
> > If i open a directory hierachy of my ascii notes, the text of files
> > is often not displayed - only if i "open a new window" it is
> > present. Workaround is to restart ZIM. But after opening of some
> > files the content is vanished again. Shall i seek for further
> > details and post a first bug report?
>
> From your description it is not quite clear to me what is happening.
> Feel free to enter a bug report if the behavior is unwanted or
> inconsistent.

Okay. I researched and found two possible reasons:
 - Different char sets (ASCII, ISO-8859-15, UTF-8), i converted them to 
   to UTF-8 and the situation gets better. But in addition, number two:
 - One file was `buzzword_overflow.info'. I attached that file so you 
   can examine it personaly. There are binary chars in it. ZIM stops 
   displaying the content of all files after this file was selected 
   for editing.

By the way, the file `buzzword_overflow.info' is a result of a very long 
business meeting which I participated some years ago. After a long time 
i could not listen anymore - and voila, the reason was a buzzword 
overflow that happens to my brain. Later I made a printable version 
with a blue blackground which can be held up during never ending 
meetings with business managers. ;-)

> >  2. ability to "source" in text like txt2tags can do - i do not
> >    mean to import it but to represent it / let it appear like
> > pictures
>
> Can you give an example of a use case for this? Given your background
> I assume you would use it to include shell script, code snippets,
> logs etc. In that case you probably want to include them as a source
> editor frame (possibly read-only). If this is the case please check

What i am meaning was the possibility to refer to code (program text, 
css stylesheets, automaticaly written logfiles) that displays _actual 
recent data with changes_ without having to reload it manualy into the 
zim text file. And there is a) no need to edit them and b) maybe this 
would be a serios problem. So, all i prefer is that it will be 
displayed, parsed, converted, exported and appears in a printings.


Besides that, i remember REMSTATS of Thomas Erskine. He made a Perldoc 
documentation for his software which has the pathes of your special 
compile root folder in its documentation. I.e. you ever have _your_ 
environment documented.

You know: Good documentation is:
 a) documentation which writes itself
 b) documentation which updates itself
 c) documentation which representes it in different targets, 
    but is only once in the system! 

> I hope I answered your questions, feel free to ask more if you run
> into things.

Okay, i did not open a bug report. But as above the solution was found. 
Nevertheless, feedback can come from the mailing-list. Maybe it was 
discussed earlier.

> Regards,
>
> Jaap <pardus@xxxxxxxx>


Regards, Ecaroh


*** STOP: 0x99999999 (0x99999999,0x99999999,0x99999999,0x99999999)
BUZZWORD_OVERFLOW_IN_UPPER_MEMORY*** Address 0x00000000 has base at 0x99999999

CPU ID: Genuine Human Brain 44J  IRQ: 0   SYSVER: 0

DLL Base DateStmp - Name        Dll Base DateStmp - Name
fd332a44 9a7cdd00 - cerebellum  cd2312e3 aa2f32d0 - brain stem
00af32ec 7eef0021 - diencephalo 0fe4a521 10f0c4dd - cerebrum


Address  dword dump   Build (1)
0000:0000 ff fe 47 00 61 00 70 00 20 00 0a 00 41 00 6e 00 ??G.a.p. ...A.n.
0000:0010 61 00 6c 00 79 00 73 00 65 00 20 00 0a 00 50 00 a.l.y.s.e. ...P.
0000:0020 72 00 6f 00 6a 00 65 00 6b 00 74 00 20 00 0a 00 r.o.j.e.k.t. ...
0000:0030 42 00 75 00 63 00 68 00 75 00 6e 00 67 00 20 00 B.u.c.h.u.n.g. .
0000:0040 0a 00 46 00 6f 00 72 00 65 00 63 00 61 00 73 00 ..F.o.r.e.c.a.s.
0000:0050 74 00 20 00 0a 00 4d 00 65 00 65 00 74 00 69 00 t. ...M.e.e.t.i.
0000:0060 6e 00 67 00 20 00 0a 00 4d 00 61 00 6e 00 61 00 n.g. ...M.a.n.a.
0000:0070 67 00 65 00 6d 00 65 00 6e 00 74 00 20 00 0a 00 g.e.m.e.n.t. ...
0000:0080 54 00 69 00 6d 00 65 00 66 00 72 00 61 00 6d 00 T.i.m.e.f.r.a.m.
0000:0090 65 00 20 00 0a 00 53 00 63 00 6f 00 70 00 65 00 e. ...S.c.o.p.e.
0000:00a0 0a 00 52 00 65 00 71 00 75 00 69 00 72 00 65 00 ..R.e.q.u.i.r.e.
0000:00b0 6d 00 65 00 6e 00 74 00 73 00 0a 00 53 00 75 00 m.e.n.t.s...S.u.
0000:00c0 63 00 63 00 65 00 73 00 73 00 0a 00 4b 00 65 00 c.c.e.s.s...K.e.