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#417 Error loading default calltips file

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2014-08-22
2004-09-09
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Error loading default calltips file:
"/home/yooden/.NEdit/calltips/C.tips"

This is an error message I get for some oprations (new
tab, open file, maybe more) with RC2. I get this even for
files not in C mode, which should not be the case. I'm
pretty sure RC2 was silent.

(The file in question really does not exist.)

Discussion

  • Nathan Gray

    Nathan Gray - 2004-09-09

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    The code responsible for this hasn't changed since 2002, so it's not a new
    thing. The problem is in reapplyLanguageMode (preferences.c:4207).
    The issue is that changing language modes should 1) unload the default
    tips files of the old language mode and 2) load the default tips files of
    the
    new mode. Because of the fact that tips files can belong to multiple
    language modes, step 1 can unload a tips file that's still in use by
    another language mode (or another document with the same language
    mode).

    If we call tf[i] the set of tips files used by language mode i and lm[j] to
    be the language mode of window j, and assume we're changing the mode
    of window 0 from lm_old to lm_new, the best thing to do is calculate the
    exact set of tips files to unload:
    unload_files = tf[lm_new] - (tf[lm_old] - (tf[lm[1]] + tf[lm[2]] + ...))

    where "-" is set subtraction. Unfortunately, set operations aren't so easy
    to code in an efficient way in C, so as a dirty equivalent I just unload
    tf[lm_old] and then "reload" tf[lm_new] and all tf[lm[i]]. I put reload in
    quotes becaus if a tips file is already loaded it doesn't get reloaded. If a
    file doesn't exist, however, it'll never get loaded and thus *every*
    language mode change will trigger an error message. I meant to do this
    in a better way eventually, but it never became an issue until now.

    It's simple to fix this so you only see the message when you close the
    last file of any language mode. This is a clear improvement to the
    current code, so it should be done in any case. I'm not sure if we should
    do much more than that, since IMHO the benefits wouldn't justify the
    added complexity. After all, having a bogus file as the default calltips
    file for a language is a problem that the user can easily fix.

    I'm attaching a patch that includes the obvious fixes.

     
  • Nathan Gray

    Nathan Gray - 2004-09-09

    Fix obvious inefficiencies in tips file loading/unloading.

     
  • Tony Balinski

    Tony Balinski - 2004-09-09

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    Wouldn't managing the set of tip files be best using a
    reference count?

     
  • Nathan Gray

    Nathan Gray - 2004-09-09

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    Yes, that would work perfectly. Thanks! I can't believe I didn't see it...

     
  • Thorsten Haude

    Thorsten Haude - 2004-10-08
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  • Thorsten Haude

    Thorsten Haude - 2004-10-08

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    Please fix this bug.

     
  • alan johnson

    alan johnson - 2005-01-03

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    should be fixed

     
  • Thorsten Haude

    Thorsten Haude - 2005-02-07

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    Is there a fix or not?

     
  • Nathan Gray

    Nathan Gray - 2005-02-15
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  • Nathan Gray

    Nathan Gray - 2005-02-15

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    Should be fixed now in CVS.

     
  • Nathan Gray

    Nathan Gray - 2005-02-15
    • status: closed --> closed-fixed
     

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