Error enabling syntax completer if snippets is not enabled

[James Tatum]

I installed via ./configure;make;make install which after some loading of build-deps and deps, went OK. I was able to get all plugins to activate except GDP Syntax Completer. When checking that, I get the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jtatum/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/gdpsyntaxcompleter.py", line 15, in <module>
    from gdp.syntaxcompleter import SyntaxController
  File "/home/jtatum/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/gdp/syntaxcompleter.py", line 28, in <module>
    from snippets.SnippetComplete import SnippetComplete, CompleteModel
ImportError: No module named snippets.SnippetComplete

I do have a /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/SnippetComplete.py.

gedit 2.27.6, gedit-developer-plugins-2.26.3

[James Tatum (jtatum)]

This is probably obvious if you're not a noob like me, but you actually need to enable the snippets plugin in gedit or you will get this error.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

No, this is not obvious. I have always had Snippets enabled, but I assumed by the way I subclassed the code, it did not need to be enabled.

In hindsight, Gedit configures the python path using the enabled plugins. So when gdpsyntaxxompleter is selected, it needs to enable the Snippet plugin, or modify the python path itself.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

While it is possible to force the snippet module into the python path, that approach undermines the gedit's control of the python path. I chose to show a message telling the user that he must enable the snippets plugin first.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Fixed released in gdp 0.2.