get the latest CVS release (info on the development page)

use ./configure --with-debugging-output

make clean

make

do not run make install since it strips the debugging symbols from the executable

use 'gdb src/bluefish' to run bluefish in the debugger, do not run gdb bluefish or gdb /usr/local/bin/bluefish since these binaries do not have any debugging symbols anymore

type 'r' to start

reproduce the crash

copy & paste the last 50 lines of debugging output to an email

type 'bt' to get the backtrace info, and copy it also to the mail (if it is over 50 lines, the first lines of the backtrace info are the most interesting)

send the mail to the general address, the mailing list or a specific developer