Re: Editor in GUI

[Torsten]

On 14.11.2013 21:29, Doug Stewart wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Torsten <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     On 14.11.2013 20:30, Doug Stewart wrote:
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>     > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Torsten <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>
>     > <mailto:address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>> wrote:
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>     >     On 14.11.2013 10:53, Doug Stewart wrote:
>     >     >     How do you try to open the existing file before the crash,
>     >     with the
>     >     >     menus of the GUI or with edit.m?
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>     >     > I use the mouse and click on the button, in the menu bar,
>     that is
>     >     > supposed to open an existing file.
>     >     > I then navigate to a .m file a click on it. Octave then
>     shuts down.
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>     >     I am not able to reproduce the crash.
>     >
>     >     Just to get the facts right:
>     >     When you try to open the file:
>     >     - you have "gedit" configured as custom editor
>     >     - you click on the open icon in the toolbar
>     >     - in the dialog box you navigate to the desired file and select it
>     >     - octave crashes
>     >
>     >     A few more questions:
>     >     - is gedit already open (you have selected "restore last session"
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>     >
>     > This is not gedit related  -- I had exactly the same symptoms before I
>     > tried gedit.
>     >
>     >       in the settings)?
>     >     - in which state is the internal editor (shown, hidden, ...)?
>     >     - does octave crash when you use "edit file_name" instead?
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>     >
>     > Wow this is interesting
>     >  I did edit d.m
>     > and it did not crash.
>     > and now I can use the gui mouse buttons and I can open and close d.m
>     > with no crashes.
>     > I then tried to open an old file with the mouse and got a crash
>     > I then did edit d1.m and it works fine with this d1.m file but
>     still not
>     > with any old files.
>     > I can access all my old file with the edit command and then they
>     work ok
>     > with the mouse clicks!!!!
> 
>     Well, "interesting" is slightly understated ... :-)
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>     Did you edit and save d.m when opened the first time via edit.m? If so,
>     is there a change in file permissions?
>     And you said it is not gedit related; but is it related to a custom
>     editor or does this also happen with the internal editor
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> It happens with the internal editor
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> -rw-rw-r--  1 doug doug         4 Nov  8 15:24 tt1a.m
> -rw-rw-r--  1 doug doug         4 Nov 14 15:10 tt1 (copy).m
> -rw-rw-r--  1 doug doug         4 Nov 14 15:10 tt1.m
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> It crashes with tt1.m and tt1 (copy).m but is ok with tt1a.m
> the only difference among these files is the date!!!
> I used ghex to look at them and they are the same.
> 
> If I create a new file with gedit separate from octave then this new
> file works ok

What I do not understand: It works with a new file but from the three
files above only the older one works? What is the date of new file
created by gedit? Is your computer time in the past, i.e. the files that
do not work are in the future?

Torsten