mike@codeavengers@ could you please provide a sample test file or url to reproduce the issue and possible help us by providing the screen cast of the issue to triaging it better.

Thanks.

The linking doesn't work for less files or javascript files that are inside a directory with a dash in the name.

For example I have a javascript directory called markup-plugins/js and none of the files are automatically linked.

It seems the system is assuming that folders do NOT contain dashes in them.

Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "sureshkumari@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

I'll do a screen cast to show you an example of it happening... because it does work sometimes...

mike@ could you please provide the screen-cast as per comment #5, for further triage.

Thank You...

I am having trouble reproducing this. @lushnikov do you know what is going on?

Sorry about that. I'll do screen cast...

Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "kkaluri@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

*http://www.screencast.com/t/LYskFpY4h
<http://www.screencast.com/t/LYskFpY4h>*

Hi Mike!
Could you please share with us a screenshot with you Sources navigator? Both "filesystem" and "network" tabs.

These unfortunately don't show up; could you please attach them via web-interface?

OK...let's try this again... last time some bot automatically deleted my comment.

Deleted: devtools2.png 51.4 KB

	devtools2.png 51.4 KB View Download

Deleted: devtools.png 37.6 KB

	devtools.png 37.6 KB View Download

Nice, this is helpful! Any chance you can attach the .css.map file? 

Latest releases have made things worse.

Now I can't even get the mappings working at all.

https://www.screencast.com/t/LsTIL7cpOnN

Hi Mike,

Which tool do you use to generate the sourcemap file? It is generated incorrectly - it has broken source urls (see screenshot)

Deleted: bad-sourcemap-file.png 37.7 KB

	bad-sourcemap-file.png 37.7 KB View Download

Ah ok!

So it is a problem at our end.

I'll check with our team member that takes care of that.

I just checked the latest version of our source maps and they seem to be correct now.

Perhaps the mappings have gotten thrown out by them being incorrect previously.

I think we updated to a more recent version of the less compiler this week which has fixed a few bugs with source maps.

Deleted: main2.css.map 941 KB

main2.css.map 941 KB Download

It seems the problem was a bug with the old version of the less compiler. This bug is fixed in the new less compiler.

Good to hear, closing this then.

OK We still haven't quite got things sorted... my developer is still trying to find which combination of less compiler parameters yields the correct output that dev tools understands.

At present he's spitting out fullpaths as follows for a less file that is available at localhost://markup-plugins/less/grid-match.less :
["C:/Users/Public/workspace/CodeAvengers/war/less-modules/variables.less","C:/Users/Public/workspace/CodeAvengers/war/markup-plugins/less/grid-match.less"]

We previously used Koala to compile our less. Its source map works with dev tools. It spits out the following paths:
"..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\Program Files (x86)\\less\\C:\\Users\\Public\\workspace\\CodeAvengers\\war\\less-modules\\variables.less","../less/grid-match.less"

Why does one of these work and the other doesn't?

Shouldn't both of these work?

What are the settings to achieve this final outcome?

#27: DevTools expect sources to be URLs (possibly relative urls), not paths. URLs are platform-independent, but paths aren't.

In your examples:
- "C:/Users/Public/workspace/CodeAvengers/war/less-modules/variables.less" is a file path rather then URL,  it has forward slashes and couldn't be parsed as URL. DevTools fails to handle this properly
- "..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\Program Files (x86)\\less\\C:\\Users\\Public\\workspace\\CodeAvengers\\war\\less-modules\\variables.less" could be treated as a relative URL, and for this reason it probably works.

Thanks that makes sense.

Mike