MonoDevelop Behaviors Just Stopped

Unity Engine
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Starting a few months ago some time in the Unity 3.5 days, it suddenly stopped popping up MonoDevelop (giving it focus) when you double-click an error in Unity’s “Console” tab. It does still bring up the correct line in MonoDevelop, which flashes in the task bar, but you have to click it/alt-tab to it manually every time.

Also, in MonoDevelop, some shortcuts such as Ctrl-Alt-C to toggle commenting suddenly stopped working. I’ve not messed with any of the keyboard settings, and when right-clicking, the menu still lists Ctrl-Alt-C as the shortcut for that toggle. These all broke at the same time and hence their cause is likely common.

I don’t know what changed suddenly but whatever it was, it’s persisted through upgrades to the present MonoDevelop 2.8.2 with Unity 4.01. Ideas?

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FIXED?

This was a problem for me too, it randomly stopped opening MonoDevelop when I double click a Console Debug line.

I figured out the cause: I had changed the project file directory name from NAME to NAME_1.0. Apparently, Console cannot open Monodevelop if you have the characters [0-9] or ._

I removed all characters and renamed my project to just NAME with no trailing characters, and MonoDevelop opens up again when double clicking in the console.

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Thanks for the tip Charles!