When I open a file with the .ini extension in kdevelop 4.0.0, I cannot enter any characters. When renaming the same file, and opening it again, I can edit without problems. Reproducable on remote as well as on local files. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # echo "foo bar" > test.ini 2. open test.ini in kdevelop and try to edit the content 3. close the file 4. # mv test.ini test.ini.txt 5. open test.ini.txt and edit the content
Unable to reproduce. Maybe the file you tried to open had inconsistent or unknown encoding. Kate (KDE advanced text editor) part which is used in kdevelop expects files to be in encoding used in system, in most cases UTF-8. When file encoding is unknown, it opens file in read-only mode, so that you don't accidentally break file encoding on file save. You can manually select file encoding from kate part menu (Editor->Tools->Encoding) and disable read only mode (Editor->Tools->Read only mode).
It is definitely not a charset issue. 1. In the steps to reproduce the problem, there is no charset relevant text. I can also create an empty file (touch foo.ini), the issue is still the same. 2. As I also wrote, as soon as I rename the file and open it again, I am suddenly able to edit the file. By the way, the Editor and View menu items are empty when I'm editing a .ini file in kdevelop.
No idea, works here. Maybe if someone else encounters this issue, there will be some data to draw conclusions from. Take a look at kdevelop console output. maybe you'll find some hints there. Also strace may help.
Works here too, though I got a warning when I try to open an .ini file: KDE could not find the editor for file 'foo.ini'. Do you want to open it as plain text? So I altered the file association for *.ini files in the KDE System Settings and now they open without warning. (I had some crusty association for *.ini files with Wine's notepad.) Maybe you should check your file associations?
it works here as well, kdevelop 4.1.1 I'll close as NEEDINFO, please reopen when you have some more helpful data (what Maciej asked) in order to try to reproduce
I'm actually having the same issue: Kdevelop opens all .ini files in readonly mode, or at least all that I've tested. This includes an empty file and pure-ASCII text content, and in every other respect the symptoms I'm seeing are the same as the original report. Even though it's 10 years later, I think this has been an issue for as long as I can remember, so it could be the same underlying cause. I just discovered this bug report and it would be nice to get a solution on record here, or at least definitively establish that it's not Gentoo-related if that is the case. emerge --info output follows: $ emerge --info kdevelop Portage 3.0.12 (python 3.8.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.32-r6, 5.10.4-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.10.4-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Ryzen_7_2700X_Eight-Core_Processor-with-glibc2.2.5 KiB Mem: 65890492 total, 43653608 free KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8388604 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 02:00:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 43f0ce2ce780ea7664d7ad03428cd71972a167fa Timestamp of repository steam-overlay: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:27:44 +0000 Head commit of repository steam-overlay: 9adf6273bedb2dd25d80b943c70e640dbacb48dc sh bash 5.1_p4 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 app-shells/bash: 5.1_p4::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.32.0-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18-r5::gentoo, 3.6.12-r1::gentoo, 3.7.9-r1::gentoo, 3.8.6::gentoo, 3.9.1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.19.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.20::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.3-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.34-r2::gentoo, 2.35.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 9.3.0-r2::gentoo, 10.2.0-r5::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.3.2-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.10::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.32-r6::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 acetylene09_local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo steam-overlay location: /var/db/repos/steam-overlay sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/steam-overlay.git masters: gentoo crossdev location: /var/db/repos/localrepo-crossdev masters: gentoo priority: 10 Installed sets: @local-active ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet --ask-enter-invalid --keep-going 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PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage" USE="X a52 aac aacs acl acpi activities alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdr cjk cli crypt cups dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr editorconfig elogind emboss encode exif flac fortran gdbm gif git gpm gui iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde kerberos kipi kwallet lcms libglvnd libnotify libtirpc lm_sensors mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ogg opengl openmp opus pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds pulseaudio qalculate qml qt5 readline sdl seccomp semantic-desktop smp spell split-usr ssl startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vlc vorbis widgets wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xv xvid yubikey zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sha sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev roccat_konextd" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en-US" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-2 php7-3 php7-4" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_8" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 python3_8" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26 ruby27" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeonsi" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= dev-util/kdevelop-5.6.1::gentoo was built with the following: USE="debug gdbui handbook plasma qmake -hex -reviewboard -subversion -test" ABI_X86="(64)" FEATURES="userpriv assume-digests pid-sandbox config-protect-if-modified unknown-features-warn news protect-owned parallel-fetch xattr ipc-sandbox usersync sandbox distlocks multilib-strict userfetch merge-sync unmerge-orphans qa-unresolved-soname-deps binpkg-dostrip usersandbox strict network-sandbox preserve-libs binpkg-docompress ebuild-locks binpkg-logs sfperms fixlafiles unmerge-logs"
Whoops, I forgot, here is the complete console output from starting kdevelop, opening a .ini file, attempting to type some characters into it (unsuccessfully), and closing the program. None of this seems particularly useful to me, but maybe someone else can find something useful in it. $ kdevelop -s '{eac37b41-1e87-4511-9052-f081334117ef}' Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) created new snippet repo "/home/diazona/.local/share/ktexteditor_snippets/data/Terrier.xml" SnippetRepository(0x5631f088a070) Cyclic dependency detected between "file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/kirigami.2/styles/org.kde.desktop.plasma/Units.qml" and "file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/kirigami.2/styles/org.kde.desktop.plasma/Units.qml" qrc:/qml/Develop.qml:139:21: QML Heading: Binding loop detected for property "font.pointSize" qrc:/qml/area_code.qml:87:9: QML Heading: Binding loop detected for property "font.pointSize" qrc:/qml/area_code.qml:63:9: QML Heading: Binding loop detected for property "font.pointSize" qrc:/qml/storage.js:24: TypeError: Cannot call method 'openDatabaseSync' of undefined qrc:/qml/storage.js:24: TypeError: Cannot call method 'openDatabaseSync' of undefined kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
I had a lucky break and figured this out: on my system, .ini files were associated with the MIME type application/x-wine-extension-ini because of some old file associations left over from when I used to have wine installed. I suspect KDevelop was seeing the application/* type and opening the file read-only because of that. I removed the wine file associations by following instructions at https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#How_do_I_clean_the_Open_With_List.3F, added the filename pattern *.ini to the text/plain MIME type in KDE's System Settings, removed the cache at .local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, and now KDevelop can open .ini files normally. All the necessary changes were made in my home directory, so I believe that proves there's nothing Gentoo-related about the issue as I experienced it.
