[SOLVED] Leafpad file save problem

Regnad Kcin · 02-20-2016, 03:07 AM

Leafpad is a fast and convenient text editor in my work.
I use kate and nano for more complex or important text editing.
I got leafpad via sbopkg and first learned of it via playing with LXDE.

Recently on my slackware-64-current-multilib system,
when files are saved through leafpad, the first eight characters
are replaced with hexadecimal zeroes.

here is a test example. before is the file. after is the same file opened and saved with leafpad
its a simple file with two lines

Quote:

12345678
abcdefgh

Code:

bash-4.3$ hexdump before
0000000 3231 3433 3635 3837 610a 6362 6564 6766
0000010 0a68                                   
0000012
bash-4.3$ hexdump after
0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 610a 6362 6564 6766
0000010 0a68                                   
0000012

I have activated scim and my setting in lang.sh is "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
which is the way I have been running for about 2 years now.

I don't find any report of this problem.

ponce · 02-20-2016, 03:18 AM

FYI, scim is not activated here

Code:

$ set | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ echo "12345678" > before ; echo "abcdefgh" >> before
$ cp -a before after
$ leafpad after

File -> Save As -> (overwriting "after")

Code:

$ ls -la before after
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser users 18 feb 20 10:13 after
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser users 18 feb 20 10:13 before
$ diff -Naur before after                             
$ hexdump before                                      
0000000 3231 3433 3635 3837 610a 6362 6564 6766
0000010 0a68                                   
0000012
$ hexdump after 
0000000 3231 3433 3635 3837 610a 6362 6564 6766
0000010 0a68                                   
0000012

Regnad Kcin · 02-20-2016, 03:36 AM

Thanks for the quick response, ponce.

The way you show it working was how it worked for me up until recently.

To test the scim issue:

I turned scim off via

Quote:

chmod -x scim.sh

which inactivated scim but no other effects.

I have removed leafpad and reloaded it but it persists with this behaviour.

Regnad Kcin · 02-20-2016, 04:00 AM

I deleted the leafpad binary file in /usr/bin and reinstalled the package and it is working normally again now.