New note contains garbage text

[vanillajonathan]

When I create a new note it creates a new empty file but the FolioEditView widget shows it as if it contains some garbage characters; it shows "Q�F;x".

Version: Folio 24.13 (Flatpak)

[toolstack]

I have seen this before but haven't yet been able to reproduce it consistently.

[vanillajonathan]

With GTK Inspector I can see that the GtkMarkdownBuffer have a property named text defined at GtkTextBuffer of type gchararray and the value of the property contains that garbage.

Maybe this is some kind of pointer to uninitialized memory? Maybe because the property current_buffer is nullable and haven't been initialized?

[toolstack]

I don't think so, I actually think it has to do with the code that ensures there is a blank line at the end of a markdown file.

Can you try creating a txt file instead of a md and see if you still see the garbage?

[vanillajonathan]

Today it seems to work fine and I cannot reproduce this issue.

[toolstack]

Ok, I'll leave this open for tracking purposes.

If you can get it to reproduce and try the text file creation, let me know.

[bellegarde-c]

Not sure if it can be related, but here, every new note will fail to save anything until I restart the application.

[bellegarde-c]

Ok, looks like it's the same bug :) Garbage is shown with empty files.

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[bellegarde-c]

I see these errors when creating a new notebook and then a new note:

(com.toolstack.Folio:2): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:48:11.222: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion 'g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
(com.toolstack.Folio:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:46:33.745: Invalid text buffer iterator: either the iterator is uninitialized, or the characters/paintables/widgets in the buffer have been modified since the iterator was created.
You must use marks, character numbers, or line numbers to preserve a position across buffer modifications.
You can apply tags and insert marks without invalidating your iterators,
but any mutation that affects 'indexable' buffer contents (contents that can be referred to by character offset)
will invalidate all outstanding iterators
Folio-Message: 13:46:35.221: window.vala:373: saving

[toolstack]

Those are because one or more of the text iterators have become invalid, something I do intend on tacking down at some point, but not related to this issue.

@bellegarde-c Can you get the issue to occur consitantly?