[Evolution] Need developers hint (to quickly fix bug)

[Roland Orre <orre bacon su se>]

I know there are several developers listening on this list,
now I've dowloaded the evolution 2.2.1.1 source (the
latest available at www.gnome.org).

The problem: Emacs keys only working in first composed message.

To correct the key behaviour I would need a hint which file
I need to start debugging. I suspect:
message-tag-followup.c
routine construct (MessageTagEditor *editor)
but I'm lost so far, as I'm not experienced with gtk.

Symptoms:
Start evolution, ask for "New",
editing keys working, i.e. they have emacs like behavior.
Discard the composer, ask for "New" again.
Now the editing keys are not working.
When pressing e.g. Ctrl-A I get select instead of beginning of line.

I need help, this need to be fixed. I actually like evolution,
but I just can't use it if the editing keys are not working.


        Best regards
        Roland


On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Roland Orre wrote:
> Now I've cleary found that the key issue is a bug in evolution!
>
> I went to the shell, did
> gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme -t string Emacs
> just to be sure,
> started evolution
> went to the menu, asking for "New", then the keys worked in the
> composer.
> Discarded this mail, and asked for "New" again,
> now the keys are fu..ed up!
>
> As this has been an issue for several years, I've had problems with
> the  keys in evolution in every major upgrade I've done the last
> years, since the emacs-key mode setting was removed from evolution.
> I got it working every time, but now it seems as evolution
> is finally dead.
>
> If someone could hint me about where to fix it, hint me about
> how to get the fix quickly into the distribution, then I could
> consider continue evolution, but with the important editing
> keys messed up, it is useless.
>
>       Best regards
>       Roland
>
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Roland Orre wrote:
> > Recently had a disk crash, good reason to upgrade..
> >
> > I'm now running gnome 2.1, evolution 2.2.1.1
> >
> > First mail composing, strange behaviour ahh, then I remember...
> >
> > gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme -t string Emacs
> >
> > and also to be sure, update the file
> > /usr/share/gtkhtml-3.6/GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor-emacs.xml
> > with a file known to be good. (even made
> > /usr/share/gtkhtml-3.6/GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor.xml
> > point to same, just to be sure)
> >
> > Restart evolution, and now the keys works Ahh, wonderful.
> > until... I don't know what happened, (a few machine restarts)
> > just suddenly I had the same problem again.
> >
> > The keys works in every other gtk application, like editing
> > forms, editing gmails, editing the browser address line etc.
> >
> > I just get wrong keys, the menu accel keys e.g. Select all
> > are empty.
> >
> > What can be wrong, why is evolution the only application
> > where I get this problem? And why doesn't it help to
> > restart it?
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     Roland Orre
> >
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