Bug 758154 – Meld not highlighting changed lines

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Bug 758154 - Meld not highlighting changed lines


Summary:	Meld not highlighting changed lines


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 758098

Product:	meld
Classification:	Other
Component:	filediff
Version:	3.14.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	meld-maint
QA Contact:	meld-maint

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2015-11-16 02:24 UTC by Michael Shepanski
Modified:	2015-11-16 03:08 UTC

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GNOME target:	---
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Attachments
screenshot (130.58 KB, image/png) 2015-11-16 02:25 UTC, Michael Shepanski	Details

Description Michael Shepanski 2015-11-16 02:24:06 UTC

OS: Ubuntu 15.10
WM: Gnome-Shell
Meld: 3.14.0

Meld not highlighting changed lines. See Screenshot. Getting this exception in the console:

Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 235725

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/task.py", line 110 in iteration
```
ret = next(task)
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/filediff.py", line 1244 in _set_files_internal
```
for i in self._diff_files():
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/filediff.py", line 1201 in _diff_files
```
while next(step) is None:
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/diffutil.py", line 466 in set_sequences_iter
```
while next(work) is None:
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/matchers.py", line 246 in initialise
```
a, b = self.preprocess()
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/matchers.py", line 155 in preprocess
```
a, b = self.preprocess_remove_prefix_suffix(self.a, self.b)
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/matchers.py", line 109 in preprocess_remove_prefix_suffix
```
self.common_prefix = find_common_prefix(a, b)
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/matchers.py", line 43 in find_common_prefix
```
if a[0] == b[0]:
```
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/meldbuffer.py", line 268 in __getitem__
```
line_end = line_start.copy()
```

AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'copy'

Comment 1 Michael Shepanski 2015-11-16 02:25:02 UTC

Created attachment 315647 [details]
screenshot

Comment 2 Kai Willadsen 2015-11-16 03:08:21 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 758098 ***