Snippets plugin doesn't work

[Robert Nasiadek]

Binary package hint: gedit

A few days ago the code snippets plugin stopped working. After pressing tab the trigger disappears, but it's replaced with a regular tab instead of the code snippet associated with the trigger.

[Robert Nasiadek (robzon)]

Sorry, I forgot to mention I'm using gutsy.

[Darryl Ware (dware)]

I've also noticed the issue on Gutsy on both my laptop and workstation.

All of the triggering seems to work normally but the trigger text is deleted and replaced with a tab, in my case 2 spaces.

If I run gedit from the commandline it logs the following to screen...

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/xmlbuilder.py:8: Warning: IA__g_object_remove_toggle_ref: couldn't find toggle ref 0xb5f97a30(0x86bd39c)
  from xml.dom.NodeFilter import NodeFilter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/Document.py", line 644, in on_view_key_press
    return self.run_snippet()
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/Document.py", line 436, in run_snippet
    return self.apply_snippet(snippets[0], start, end)
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/Document.py", line 369, in apply_snippet
    active_info = s.insert_into(self, start)
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/Snippet.py", line 295, in insert_into
    self._parse(plugin_data.view, marks)
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/Snippet.py", line 231, in _parse
    self._insert_text(val)
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/Snippet.py", line 138, in _insert_text
    indented = unicode.join('\n' + unicode(self._indent), spaces_instead_of_tabs(self._view, text).split('\n'))
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/Helper.py", line 59, in spaces_instead_of_tabs
    return text.replace("\t", view.get_tabs_width() * ' ')
AttributeError: 'gedit.View' object has no attribute 'get_tabs_width'

[Darryl Ware (dware)]

If I turned off "insert spaces instead of tabs" in the preferences the plugin begun to function normally.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Looks like gedit-plugins needed to be updated for the new gtksourceview API

[Robert Nasiadek (robzon)]

Thanks for the fix! :)

[Robert Nasiadek (robzon)]

When will the patch hit repos? This bug still exists after today's upgrades.

[Jesus Sanchez (ahinosvemos)]

On 2007-09-12 GtkSourceView-2 API renamed get_tabs_view() to get_tab_view().

Modify Helper.py line 59 and it will work again ;)

[Alex Cornejo (acornejoc)]

This bug is still there as of today, and the fix is very simple, why not just patch the package and close this bug?

[Alex Cornejo (acornejoc)]

I changed the status back to "in progress" since it seems that everyone just forgot about this bug, and it is still present with the latest updates, even though a trivial fix is available.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Alex, please don't change to a wrong status, we use "Fix Commited" when the bug is fixed upstream, it's easier to get a list of bugs with a patch that we might close, setting it to something else means it'll probably stay in the middle if thousand of open bugs. The fixed package has also be uploaded for this one some days ago, it's just blocked by the beta freeze at the moment to it's really fix commited, usually the maintainers know what they are doing and there is no reason to do such changes

[Alex Cornejo (acornejoc)]

Sorry for changing to wrong status, I am not familiar with the use of each status, and I wrongly assumed that "Fix Commited" meant that the fix was already available at the repositories and you were waiting for "testers".

I'll be more careful next time.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's alright, you can read about those on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gedit (2.20.0-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_fix_snippets_syntax.patch:
    - patch from SVN, fix syntax in the snippets plugin (LP: #136876)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:26:38 +0200

[Evandro Pastor (evandrolinux-yahoo)]

I have the same error here. I am using Ubuntu 8.04

[Tomasz Moniuszko (tvicious)]

The same with Ubuntu 10.04.