Running monodevelop from linux terminal (ubuntu 17.10) always opens a new instance.

[leawp]

I'm trying to launch monodevelop from command line I'm issuing the following command /usr/lib/monodevelop/bin/MonoDevelop.exe /path_to_solution/solution.sln /path_to_solution/file.cs;-1

which should open the soultion and open file.cs well.. it does open it but everytime I issue the command it opens a new monodevelop instance.

monodevelop /path_to_solution/solution.sln /path_to_solution/file.cs;-1

does exactly the same thing

VS bug #605540

[Therzok]

If you specify a solution file, we always open in a new window.

https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/blob/master/main/src/core/MonoDevelop.Ide/MonoDevelop.Ide/IdeStartup.cs#L153

Related UX issues: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/issues/3791

cc @slluis @mhutch

[mhutch]

Do you mean it's opening the file and the solution in different instances?

[mkrueger]

This is hard to fix - we need to decide for a model on the UI level. I feel that we always should have 1 solution per monodevelop process in that case the current behavior is correct.

But we need to decide soon.

[leawp]

Is there a way to disable this behaviour in monodevelop settings?

2018-04-26 11:00 GMT+02:00 Mike Krüger notifications@github.com:

This is hard to fix - we need to decide for a model on the UI level. I feel that we always should have 1 solution per monodevelop process in that case the current behavior is correct.

But we need to decide soon.

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[leawp]

@mhutch It opens the solution and the file in the same instance but after issuing the command for the second time it opens another instance with the same solution and file. I guess it should just like select it in the previous instance that has it already open.

@Therzok It worked just fine in version 5.9

[h8672]

We got files to continue opening on the current solution. https://forum.unity.com/threads/monodevelop-not-opening-files.369269/#post-4222807

Problems discovered there:

• Line number cant be below 0.
• Attaching solution every time causes new windows to open.

We by passed the problem using additional shellscript:

• When line is -1, send 0 instead. (Didn't open a file if it was negative)
• Don't open file with solution if process is already open.