Checked it the simple way, it does not work. gedit at 3.36.1-2 as requested. It fires up correctly with plugin unchecked. When activated via Preferences -> Plugins this is the output I get together with a warning sign:
** (gedit:56510): WARNING **: 16:19:55.334: Error importing plugin 'latex': Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/__init__.py", line 39, in <module> from .windowactivatable import LaTeXWindowActivatable File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/windowactivatable.py", line 38, in <module> from .tabdecorator import GeditTabDecorator File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/tabdecorator.py", line 187 @return: the extension of the currently opened file ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax (gedit:56510): libpeas-WARNING **: 16:19:55.334: Error loading plugin 'latex' On 4/12/20 4:11 PM, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Sorry, forget my last comment, only now I read the entire > gitlab.gnome.org bug, and produced a simple patch: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit-latex/-/commit/2b4cbb4421b0f4e831550b7bc6a02931314e4133 > > It works with gedit 3.30.2, so if any of you could test it with gedit > 3.36.1-1 (even just editing that single file by hand), then I'd be > happy to merge the fix upstream and then update the Debian package. > Otherwise, I'll try to get a sid install running and test myself as > soon as possible.