Error saving bibtex files

[Michiel Renger]

Gedit gives the error below everytime I try to save a .bib-file. The saving seem to work fine, apart from the error popping up. Is the plugin even supposed to do anything while saving .bib-files?

  'bibtex-error'

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/util.py", line 116, in decorated_function
  return function(*args, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/bibtex/editor.py", line 141, in __parse
  self.remove_markers("bibtex-error")
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/editor.py", line 493, in remove_markers
  type_record = self._marker_types[marker_type]
  KeyError: 'bibtex-error'

I'm using Xubuntu 12.04 LTS with the 3.4.0 version of the plugin. I don't think it's related, but it may be worthwhile mentioning that I'm also experiencing this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit-plugins/+bug/957924.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michiel Renger (dingenis)]

It may be more related to gedit then to the plugin: I notice that gedit does not clean up temporary files (starting with ~ ) properly after closing.

[Sam M (loresat-laimto)]

The plugin appears to be attempting to clear a marker "bibtex-error" that doesn't exist.

Change /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/editor.py", line 493 to check whether a key actually exists or not before trying to remove it.

Insert:
        if (not marker_type in self._marker_types.keys()):
                type_record.markers = []
                return

Before line 493:
type_record = self._marker_types[marker_type]

This appears to fix the problem for me... I don't actually know how the markers are supposed to function, or why the plugin tries to clear one that doesn't exist. I assume they are related to the information that gedit displays in the bottom panel.

[Sam M (loresat-laimto)]

Oh... the line:
type_record.markers = []
Probably shouldn't be there?
But it doesn't seem to break anything.

[Sam M (loresat-laimto)]

Yes, it shouldn't be there, or whatever type_record was previously will get reset, which is probably a bad thing. Apologies for being hasty.

[Sam M (loresat-laimto)]

Ok, after fixing that, I started to get other error messages about attributes not existing, etc.
It seems the function BibTexEditor._parse() is generally broken. So I have removed the call to _parse() in BibTexEditor.onsave

Comment out line 92 in /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/bibtex/editor.py

Now the file saves; but you get no warning or error messages if there is a problem with your file.

[LaunchPeter (launchpeter)]

The bug is still there in quantal. The workaround from #3 doesn't work, but #6 does.

[Carnë Draug (carandraug)]

Hi

this bug has been fixed upstream , see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667096

To apply the fix, you can edit the file /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/bibtex/views.py with the changes on http://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit-latex/commit/?id=f750fe41a5e36e487e718d893b8aba5bee522444

Basically, replace None with [] on line 58.