'Emacs Keys' plugin is not working in QtCreator 17

[canellas]

I updated QtCreator to version 17.0.0 and 'Emacs Keys' plugin is not working anymore, I mean, none of the keyboards Emacs shortcuts, like 'crtl+n' for line down, are working and they appear in italic font in 'Edit/Preferences/Environment/Keyboard' as shown in the picture below.

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

Thanks in advance

[hskoglund]

Hi, I got struck by a similar problem with my Wordstar plugin, it turns out, starting with version 17.0.0 QtCreator has switched from using QPlainTextEdit to an internal 100% compatible clone called Utils::PlainTextEdit.

So all the places where EmacsKeys casts from QPlainTextEdit (I see 3 of them):

m_currentEditorWidget = qobject_cast<QPlainTextEdit*>(editor->widget());

needs to be changed to:

m_currentEditorWidget = qobject_cast<Utils::PlainTextEdit*>(editor->widget());

For more see the discussion here

[cristian-adam]

Thank you for reporting this, has been now fixed at EmacsKey: Use Utils::PlainTextEdit instead of QPlainTextEdit

You can get a snapshot of Qt Creator 17.0.1 the next days with the fix.

[canellas]

Thanks for your answers and actions!