interaction with TracSectionEdit causes Initialize errors

[jeffrey.guy.lyon@…]

SectionEditPlugin works fine for all these cases...

= A title =
Some text
# A Heading #
Some Text
## A Subheading ##
Some Text 

However, adding IDs to the headings causes problems. For example,

= A title =#id1
Some text
# A Heading #=id2
Some Text
## A Subheading ##=id3
Some Text 

When clicking on the "Edit" for id1, the whole page opens up for editing instead of just the first seciton. When clicking on "Edit" for either of the numbered headings, the Trac error is issued:

Initialize Error The section <N> that you chose could not be found.

where <N> is 2 or 3 depending on which heading is clicked.

[Ryan J Ollos]

I think the solution here might be for NumberedHeadlinesPlugin to use # for the anchor rather than =. I tend to think this could be done without interfering with the normal function of the NumberedHeadlinesPlugin.

That is, use:

## Numbered Headline ###ownID

rather than,

## Numbered Headline ##=ownID

You could test this out by a simple modification of the regular expression on line 57 of plugin.py:

r"(?P<nhanchor>=%s)?(?:\s|$))" % XML_NAME

->

r"(?P<nhanchor>#%s)?(?:\s|$))" % XML_NAME

[Ryan J Ollos]

See also #5460. I think that fix wasn't correct. I'm planning to investigate further.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to rjollos:

See also #5460. I think that fix wasn't correct. I'm planning to investigate further.

This fix was correct for Trac 0.11, but not for 0.12.

[Ryan J Ollos]

We need to check whether this issue still occurs following #7826, but if so I'd work on implementing a fix.