When "the" is written before note title, link isn't created.

[David Prieto]

Binary package hint: tomboy

I have a note called "illocutionary act". If I write the words "illocutionary act" in another note, I get a link. But if I write "the " before the words I get NO link. I'm attaching a screenshot.

Leaving two spaces between the article "the" and the adjective "illocutionary" results in the note being created. Using any article other than "the" also allows the note to be created.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: tomboy 0.14.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tomboy
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Hello David, tried the same test case you provided there and it works fine on Karmic, could you please try the same there? Thanks a lot.

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

Hi Pedro,

Sadly, the bug still happens here, as this screenshot taken just now (in Karmik) shows.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

cannot reproduce that here, could you please send it upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org since you're getting the issue there? thanks David.

[faultygearbox (faultygearbox)]

I tried to reproduce as well, but failed.

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

I might have just discovered something relevant.

As you know, when you change a note's title the text in links pointing to it change. If I have the sentence "Thomas Jefferson wrote the American [L]Declaration of Independence[/L]", where the text between [L][/L] points to another note:

1 - If I change the note's title to "the Declaration of Independence", the original sentence would change too: "Thomas Jefferson wrote the American [L]the Declaration of Independence[/L]", where an additional "the" has been added.

2 - If instead I remove the word "American", the link disappears: "Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence".

3 - However, if I remove the word "American" AND then I change the note's title to "the Declaration of Independence", the original sentence reads: "Thomas Jefferson wrote [L]the Declaration of Independence[/L]"

That is: instead of adding an additional "the", Tomboy recognises the article that was already there and adds it to the link. I am pretty sure that this article recognition is probably intentional, but related to the described problem.

[Alemann Massho (armistice-con-deactivatedaccount)]

I can't reproduce this bug with the newest stable release. I think that makes sense because the devs fixed a lot of the string matching problems with "the" and "a" in front of note titles. If you can still reproduce it, please change the bug status back to confirmed.