[Lazarus] IDE problems - FIXED

[brian]

On 11/26/2013 04:02 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> brian wrote:
>
>> Well, not surprisingly, the nuclear option worked. Rename .lazarus
>> and my development directory, copy the .ini files and
>> fpcup_linux_x64 into a new directory, and rebuild the whole thing.
>> Bit of a nuisance having to set all my preferences again, but
>> nothing like as bad as trying to debug with the previous setup.
>>
>> If anyone can figure out what happened, I for one would still be
>> interested to hear it.
>
> Run diff (e.g. kdiff3) on the old and new configuration files. Report
> back.
>
> I think that what you didn't tell us is exactly how you are accessing
> Lazarus: for example, I see a couple of minor issues when tunnelling X
> over ssh that I don't see over VNC, and in the general case VNC has
> its own problems and instabilities. Even if you're running locally
> (i.e. using the machine's own screen/keyboard/mouse) the window
> manager (AKA desktop) can influence things.
>

Sorry for the delayed reply, now programming is just a hobby, my wife 
has other ideas about how I should spend my time... :(

Anyway, everything is local, my desktop is XFCE.

Checking the old and new directories, these are the directory listings

Old setup (showing the problem)

total 512
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian    803 Nov 13 00:59 codeexploreroptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian    215 Nov 13 00:59 codetoolsoptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 245235 Nov 25 03:28 codyunitdictionary.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian      0 Nov 25 06:34 compilertest.pas
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian     86 Nov 26 00:37 EditorMacros.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian    817 Nov 13 00:59 editoroptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  13171 Nov 26 00:37 environmentoptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 176600 Nov 25 06:28 fpcdefines.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian    424 Nov 13 00:59 helpoptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   3400 Nov 25 06:30 idemake.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   5216 Nov 26 00:37 includelinks.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   1361 Nov 26 00:37 inputhistory.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  11295 Nov 22 00:19 jcfsettings.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   4447 Oct 25 07:07 lazarus.dci
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   1139 Oct 25 07:07 laz_indentation.pas
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   2558 Nov 25 06:27 miscellaneousoptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   1425 Nov 15 04:03 packagefiles.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 brian brian   4096 Oct 25 07:07 projectsessions
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian     84 Nov 26 00:36 protocol.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian    469 Nov 25 06:28 staticpackages.inc


New setup (works just fine)

total 108
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian     0 Nov 26 03:01 compilertest.pas
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian    86 Nov 27 17:14 EditorMacros.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   522 Nov 26 03:01 editoroptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 10368 Nov 27 17:14 environmentoptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 31043 Nov 26 02:32 fpcdefines.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  3029 Nov 26 03:14 idemake.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   858 Nov 27 14:46 includelinks.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   404 Nov 27 17:14 inputhistory.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 11479 Nov 26 03:01 jcfsettings.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  4447 Nov 26 03:01 lazarus.dci
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  1139 Nov 26 03:01 laz_indentation.pas
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  2315 Nov 26 03:13 miscellaneousoptions.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  1425 Nov 26 03:12 packagefiles.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 brian brian  4096 Nov 26 03:01 projectsessions
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian    84 Nov 27 14:44 protocol.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian   400 Nov 26 03:14 staticpackages.inc

The comparisons are attached, hopefully it just gets in under 100 KB. 
All I did was to run a diff on the two files ignoring white space 
differences and pipe the output to files of the same name in a third 
directory.


Brian.
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