Re: [ jEdit-users ] Problem with buffer tabs in 4.3pre2 (was Re: jEdit 4.3pre1 now available)

[Steve J. <ste...@wi...>]

The problem is in the BufferTabs plugin. It doesn't handle the 
BUFFER_CHANGED type of the EditPaneUpdate message (only CREATED and 
DESTROYED).

Steve Jakob

On 26-Jun-05, at 11:55 AM, Joe Laffey wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Wendy Smoak wrote:
>> Back in January, Robert William Vesterman wrote:
>>> After switching to 4.3pre1, I have encountered the following problem:
>>> The contents of the current buffer are not always displayed.  
>>> Sometimes
>>> another buffer's contents are displayed instead.  But the current 
>>> buffer
>>> contents are somehow known to the program - for example:
>>> Say you have files A and B open, and are currently in file A, but 
>>> (due to
>>> this bug) the contents of file B are displayed instead.  You search 
>>> for the
>>> text "blah", which is contained in file A, but not in file B.  It 
>>> will act
>>> as if it has successfully found "blah", and will highlight the text 
>>> in file
>>> B that is at (I think) the same byte offset in file B as the actual 
>>> text
>>> "blah" in file A.
>>> I'm using the Buffer Tabs plugin; switching to a different tab and 
>>> then back
>>> to the one you're interested in seems to get the proper file 
>>> displayed.
>>
>> This is also happening with 4.3pre2 with Buffer Tabs 0.8.3.  When you 
>> switch sessions, the session remembers which file you were working 
>> on.  That's the file that is actually displayed, and the filename 
>> that appears in the title bar of the window and just above the file 
>> contents in the drop-down list of open files.
>>
>> But the buffer tab that is highlighted is always the 'first' tab. 
>> (top/left if buffer tabs are docked at the bottom of the screen.) 
>> This happens every time you switch sessions, but of course you only 
>> notice it if you were working on a file other than that first tab.
>
> I too have seen this bug. But I am not using "sessions" (AKAIK). I see 
> the wrong tab highlighted sometimes when I open documents. Note I 
> always have the screen split either horizontally on my laptop, or 
> vertically on my dual monitor desktop.