Bug#767330: gedit: Highlight mode selection not working via toolbar (vs statusbar)

[Nico Rikken]

Package: gedit
Version: 3.14.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

I pasted scilab code into a new gedit window, creating Unsaved Document 1. The highlighting wasn't automatically detected (desired behavior I assume) so I wanted proper Scilab highighting activated. I selected from the top menu-button: View > Highlight Mode... Searching and selection was working in the pop-up, but after choosing 'Select' (top-right) nothing changed. The statusbar (bottom) still indicated plain-text and so was the Hightlight Mode menu when revisited via the menu-bar. Selection via the statusbar indicator did however turn out to work fine. Having selected Scilab highlighting in this way, the menu via the top menu-botton now showed Scilab as selected as well. Trying to revert highlighting to Plain text (as a test) from the top-menu failed, but it did from the statusbar.

-- Package-specific info:
Active plugins:
  - 'spell'
  -  'modelines'
  -  'docinfo'
  -  'time'
  -  'filebrowser'

No plugin installed in $HOME.

Module versions:
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common               3.14.0-2
ii  gir1.2-peas-1.0            1.12.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.14.0-1
ii  iso-codes                  3.56-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-11
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-5
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-5
ii  libenchant1c2a             1.6.0-10.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1      1.42.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.42.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.14.3-1
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1     3.14.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.8-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.8-2
ii  libpeas-1.0-0              1.12.1-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  python3-gi                 3.14.0-1
ii  python3-gi-cairo           3.14.0-1
pn  python3:any                <none>

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  yelp    3.14.1-1
ii  zenity  3.14.0-1

Versions of packages gedit suggests:
ii  gedit-plugins  3.14.0-1

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