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#181 Netbeans8.0 / jvi stopped working after installing other plugins
Hello,
I dont know if it is a jvi or netbeans problem, but I need info to solve my problem.
My problem is that I cannot use the Netbeans IDE anymore because I cannot work without jvi!!
This is the situation:
I use Netbeans 8.0 with some other plugins and exported my options (code formatting etc) to a zip file.
OS is Ubuntu Linux.
Until some weeks ago Netbeans was working fine. Than an automatic update came, and jvi was broken. e.g. When I type Shift+a, a capital A is printed and not start editing after at the
end of the line.
Switching off/on jvi, it did not solve the problem. Even when I switch off jvi my keyboard is not working anymore.
So now I am already 2 weeks investigating / trying how to solve my problem (with no success)
here I describe in short the things I did.
1. remove ~/.cache/netbeans, ~/.netbeans/8.0
2. starting netbeans.
3. installing jvi, JVI IS WORKING here.
4. importing former exported 8.0 options.zip, JVI STOPS WORKING
5. remove see 1.
6. Did my options by hand (format, fonts,colors, keymaps) by hand A LOT OF WORK.
7. installing jvi, JVI IS WORKING HERE
8. installed other plugins e.g. plantuml, PHP, copy past history, etc
9. jvi STOPPED WORKING
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Now I did a new install of netbeans and repeated the above with no success.
Pse can you give a hint to proceed, is it a bug in netbeans? or jvi?
Later on I will add reproducable scenario
Here's a few things you try to help figure out where is the problem.
When jVi doesn't work, check the NB log and see if there are any exceptions.
After your step 3, only import the jVi stuff from options.zip. Does it still work? If it still works then import some other things, check if jVi works. Determine precisely what import is killing jVi.
Do step 8 in smaller pieces, find out what is breaking jVi.
It may be that the bug is in some other plugin that you are using (neither NB nor jVi).
Yesterday I managed to get Netbeans up and running on Ubuntu by looking carefully to
the messages.log and adding plugins 1 by 1.
BUT
Now my netbeans 8.0 on windows (7 professional) is broken too with same symptoms.
How this occurred.
I am working with QtCreator / Netbeans 8.0 on same files. When I change a file in QtCreator
and save the file. After that editing the same file in Netbeans is sometimes not
doable because Netbeans is becoming very slow. This situation just happened. I could not
exit netbeans on a normal way, so I stopped the java.exe process in the windows task manager.
After restarting netbeans jVi is not working any more. Starting stopping jvi does not help
I attached the messages.log.
The failures in the log don't seem to have anything to do with jVi.
The log starts with a lot of annotation problems, could these be related to some plugin you are using?
And all the other stuff about: org.openide.filesystems.FileStateInvalidException
By your comment, it looks like NB got stuck, then you killed it and on the restart things were messed up. The log of the initial fail, when it got stuck, probably has the more useful information about what caused the crashed. (I'm guessing that the log you attached is on the restart, and is not the log of what caused the crash).
The big problem seems to be that once it crashes, it gets all screwed up as seen in the log.
Ok, I did try repair on Windows. Did complete re-install, added plugins + jvi plugins
Netbeans working fine with jvi.
Now I a key mapping F4 (Switch between Source/Header, same as in QtCreator).
After adding this keymap jvi was not working any more BUT after a couple of times swithing
off/on jvi it was working again.
So this is not exact the situation as mentioned before but I attach messages.log may be
you can discover something.
What exactly do you mean by this? What do you do to "add this keymap"?
The log seems OK for jVi. The very end of the log shows swithching jVi off/on
In the log it happens once, not
FYI, the older logs are xxx.1, xxx.2 in case that might be useful in the future.
Keep an eye open for NB starting to get wierd. Then check the log and try to see what might have caused it. If you can come up with a repeatable case, then you can turn on some jVi debug info and maybe there would be a clue from that.
Closing. Seems due to some other plugin interactions and/or their bad saved state.
Do you have a reproducible way to create the problem?
Look at the last post in the bug. In particular, when it gets broken, exit NB and save the log and try to pinpoint in the log when it gets broken. Look at it for anything peculiar.
One thing that can be turned on is
Menu>Tools>Options>jviConfig>Debug>DebugKeyStrokes --> INFO
and it will print something for every keystroke that jVi sees. When it gets broken I'm guessing that the keys are not being delivered to NB.
So you say the problem happens when you go from c++ to php. Not the other way around?
Hello Ernie,
I don't know exactly when the problem happens, since I was not focussed on it. I accepted the problem, reset netbeans cache etc., added my personal settings and go on again.
What I also one time encountered that the ':' was not working e.g. save file ':w', the entry where to give vi commands did not show up.
Ok I wrote and made a detailed scenario, what I do after a fresh install / reset of netbeans, and now the problem is showing up direct after my actions Here below follows the scenario:
reset netbeans
nbversion="8.0.2"
rm -rf ~/.netbeans/$nbversion/
rm -rf ~/.cache/netbeans/
/usr/local/netbeans-${nbversion}/bin/netbeans &
netbeans->Tools->Options>Appearance
snap floating windows off
nimbus look and feel, max usage of native look and feel
activate C/C++ and PHP plugins.
install downloaded plugins
1318944885_net-java-dev-nbmodules-copypastehistory.nbm
1356901508_org-netbeans-modules-languages-tcl.nbm
1358068920_de-markiewb-netbeans-plugin-showpathintitle-2.0.1.nbm
1390820496_1387360569_git.toolbar-1.1.0.nbm
1393969217_show-branch-in-statusbar-1.0.1.nbm
1395430283_status-line-mem-usage.nbm
1395645944_1390265484_org-netbeans-modules-php-quickmethodjump.nbm
1396674570_com-junichi11-netbeans-php-enhancements-0.8.0.nbm
1402832376_status-line-clock.nbm
1412360234_com-tagmycode-netbeans.nbm
adhoc-project-1.12.nbm
flow-netbeans-markdown.nbm
PlantUML-NB-1.0.nbm
restart IDE
Check for updates, install, restart.
set editor formatting, Tools->Options->Formatting
Tools->Options->Fonts & Colors, Syntax
Tools->Options->Keymap
Now open a C++ Project
drag this navigator tab to the Projects, etc ... group
move the group to the right of the IDE.
install the jvi plugin 1.5.3, restart IDE
shiftwidth, 8
sts, 4
ts, 4
tw, 110
###### NOW JVI IS NOT WORKING ##################
Set all de jvi debug levels to ALL. Type ESC
than type char 'a', jvi does not go into insert mode, but char 'a'is printed on my screeen.
I attached all the logs in var.tgz file.
Did you toggle the jVi Enable flag in Menu>Tools>Options? There's some evidence of that in the log, but I don't see that mentioned in the scenario. If you did that, did it work before you did it.
The scenario indicates that jVi never worked after it was installed. Setting options for jVi is unlikely to break it. After "install the jVi plugin" and before setting any options, does jVi work?
When jVi is not working. What happens if you open a new file, does jVi work in that file?
Can't reproduce. No comments several years. closing.