Bug#645782: gedit-plugins: gedit snippets failing when editing file over SFTP

[Julian Lam]

Package: gedit-plugins
Version: 2.30.0-1
Severity: normal

I am attempting to use gedit's "snippets" plugin. They work great in Ubuntu, but I've since switched to Debian. Now, even though I have enabled Snippets, they don't work when I am editing files on a remote (SFTP) server.

They work great locally (create file, set language as PHP, try snippets), which is of small comfort, since I'd prefer to work on the remote server.

Is this a bug in gedit Debian? I am using Squeeze.

Reproduction steps (Using Debian Squeeze 6.0.2):

    In gedit, enable Snippets (Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins -> Check "Snippets")
    Open a new SFTP connection in nautilus (Places -> Home -> Ctrl-L -> sftp://any.site.that/you/can/access/through/SFTP
    Double-click on a php file to open it in gEdit
    Type "foreach" and press tab. The rest of the code should be automatically filled in. Note that this does not occur.
    Open a new document (Ctrl-N)
    Set the language (at the bottom) from "Plain Text" to "PHP"
    Type "foreach" and press tab. Note that the rest of the code *does* automatically populate now.

On GNOME IRC, jaliste suggested that I run gedit through the terminal, which provided this traceback: http://pastebin.com/45MzeHjK

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gedit-plugins depends on:
ii  gconf2                2.28.1-6           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gedit                 2.30.4-1squeeze1   official text editor of the GNOME 
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.30.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-10          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2             1.10.2-6~bpo60+1   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1        2.8.0-2.1          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6          2.4.2-2.1+squeeze1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4           2.28.1-6           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.24.2-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.20.1-2           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview2.0-0 2.10.4-1           shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libgucharmap7         1:2.30.3-1         Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.28.3-1+squeeze2  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  python                2.6.6-3+squeeze6   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-gconf          2.28.1-1           Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii  python-glade2         2.17.0-4           GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gobject        2.21.4+is.2.21.3-1 Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2           2.17.0-4           Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-gtksourceview2 2.10.1-1           Python bindings for the GtkSourceV
ii  python-support        1.0.10             automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-vte            1:0.24.3-3         Python bindings for the VTE widget

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