autoEdit Freezes when Editing Short Transcripts

[Sanchovilla]

Describe the bug
I have been in the middle of editing a couple of transcripts (both about three pages long) and the program will lock up/freeze. I am able reload to the last save when it occurs. (sidenote: autoEdit is awesome!)

To Reproduce
This has worked a few time to reproduce the behavior:

1. while editing a transcript. If I hit enter (to move to a new speaker in the transcript), without adding a space after the last word in the line I'm moving on from, it will freeze. It doesn't occur all the time but I have found it to pop up most frequently when doing this. Occasionally, if I manage to do this without it freezing, it will freeze when I hit the Save Button.

Expected behavior
autoEdit freezes completely. I can only access/interact with the menu at the top of the screen and not on the app. Reloading does solve the issue but all changes prior to freezing are lost.

Screenshots
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autoEdit3 Version 1.4.0

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac14,4
Operating System: Big Sur Version 11.2.3
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 3 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 8 GB
System Firmware Version: 430.0.0.0.0

Additional Note: I had the same exact issue when working on a newer model Dell Latitude Tablet (running windows) but I don't have access to its information although I was also running version 1.4.0

[pietrop]

Hi @Sanchovilla
Thanks for raising this, and for the detailed explanation, much appreciated!

I don't fully understand this part tho

If I hit enter (to move to a new speaker in the transcript), without adding a space after the last word in the line I'm moving on from, it will freeze.

Could you try and re-word it and/or maybe share a gif of it in action? (even without the crash, just to understand the behaviour that sometimes causes it)

[pietrop]

I suspect is an issue with the underlying component used to correct the transcript pietrop/slate-transcript-editor (see storybook) There's some alignment happening under the hood on save. and the alignment algorithm might have a 🐛 or two in some "edge cases" such as this one pietrop/slate-transcript-editor#43.

We are looking into it, as it's a pretty big inconvenience. but any help in being able to reproduce potential issues would be good.

[Sanchovilla]

Oh yes of course, my apologies. My explanations leave much to be desired. I will see if I can do this with video to show you later today.

[pietrop]

That'll be great, thanks!
And yeah no worries, always hard to describe these steps etc..

I normally use this for gifs LICEcap it's easier to embed those in a post here on github, but video is also fine, if you have somewhere to host it etc..

[Sanchovilla]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wevf99tb4ijy4pb/Screen%20Recording%202021-03-18%20at%2012.59.31%20PM%202.mov?dl=0

Okay, here is short clip. I was having trouble recreating it but this time it occurred when I was trying to delete and move a word up to the line above it (about 10 seconds into the video). I'll keep trying to recreate the one I mentioned in my original issue.

[pietrop]

This is great, thanks, what are you doing at 7 to 9 seconds in ?

Did you delete the I in Interaction and then pressed enter? and that's when it froze?

[Sanchovilla]

Yes, in this case I deleted the Capital letter I, then hit delete again to move it up to the line above it and that is when it froze

[pietrop]

So this is a problem with the underlying slate-transcript-editor component underlying alignement module, so continuing it there pietrop/slate-transcript-editor#43 (comment)