How top programmatically open files?

[treagod]

Hi I'm trying to add a fuzzy search (see my branch here) and the concept is really working well for now.

I'm now at the point where I want to open a file which was selected by the fuzzy finder (see plugins/fuzzy-search/fuzzy-search.vala line 80). But open_file from the interface can't open the file because it says the file is corrupt (it isn't!).
If the selected file is already open the editor will crash.

Can somebody guide me here how to programmatically open a file from a plugin? I'm kind of lost.

I'm getting following segmentation fault when opening the file:

[jeremypw]

Plugins have access to the MainWindow so you could try creating a Services.Document from the file and then call the open_document function.

[treagod]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I tried it, but I'm still getting the same error:

As far as I can tell the plugin interface method open_file is doing this internally.

[jeremypw]

Looks like you have a null file?

[jeremypw]

If you make and submit a draft PR it will be easier to investigate.

[treagod]

Created #1159