Bug#877084: kate: if same symlinked file is opened twice (from same location!), kate opens a second instance of it
Package: kate
Version: 4:16.08.3-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have a folder with symlinked text files of most frequent use. With Kate in Debian Jessie, there were no problems;
in Debian Stretch (stable), opening a symlinked file more than once leads Kate to open another instance of it, in another tab (with the addictional "(\d+)" to the file anme in the tab title, of course).
Using Kate in KDE4 (in Jessie), if a file was already opened in a tab, the program switched to that tab, symlinked or not.
It would be nice to have the same behaviour in Kate in KDE Plasma.
The same bug occurs when a normal file is inside a folder that is a symlink, or when the file's path crosses some symlinked folders, somewhere.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages kate depends on:
ii kate5-data 4:16.08.3-1
ii kio 5.28.0-2
ii ktexteditor-katepart 5.28.0-2
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libgit2-24 0.25.1+really0.24.6-1
ii libkf5activities5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5bookmarks5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5completion5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5configcore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5configgui5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5crash5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5guiaddons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5i18n5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5iconthemes5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5itemmodels5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5jobwidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kiocore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kiofilewidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5newstuff5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5parts5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5plasma5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5service-bin 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5service5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5texteditor5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5textwidgets5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5threadweaver5 5.28.0-1+b2
ii libkf5wallet-bin 5.28.0-3
ii libkf5wallet5 5.28.0-3
ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.28.0-3
ii libkf5windowsystem5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.28.0-1
ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5dbus5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5gui5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5sql5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5xml5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
ii plasma-framework 5.28.0-2
ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons 5.28.0-1
ii qml-module-qtquick-layouts 5.7.1-2+b2
ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.7.1-2+b2
kate recommends no packages.
Versions of packages kate suggests:
ii aspell 0.60.7~20110707-3+b2
ii ispell 3.4.00-5
ii khelpcenter 4:16.08.3-1
ii konsole-kpart 4:16.12.0-4
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