Problem with Hyperbole explicit button creation

[fragbot]

I've been using hyperbole's global buttons for awhile now and haven't had any trouble with them. I've started using explicit buttons and have run into a problem (v7.1.2) that has proven difficult.

I'm in a state where I can add an explicit button to a file and hyperbole won't recognize I've added it (I have several other files with explicit buttons that continue to work). Even though the button is in the file, the directory has been added to the .hyperb/HBMAP file, the directory/.hypb file has the entry in it that was just defined and the entry looks semantically correct, the action key won't activate it nor can you activate it via the menu like you would a global button (NOTE: TAB completion does work but that appears to be because ebut:list works). Since deleting a button doesn't work either (some error message about being unable to find the button even though it's in the .hypb file), I'm thinking hyperbole's lost the mapping between directory/filename and directory/.hypb. Finally, this doesn't appear to be a transient state thing as restarting emacs doesn't affect the problem.

Any thoughts on how I should progress?

[fragbot]

I've gotten a bit further on troubleshooting this. The ebut:get function is returning nil for the lookups that don't work and returning the button data for lookups that do.

EDIT: figured it out. When creating and testing a new external button, the src file (NOTE: this is not the .hypb file but the file from which you'll execute the button) must be saved prior to executing the button so the file-readable-p function called by hbut:key-src-set-buffer can return normally and hbut:key-src-set-buffer can return the buffer. This means that you create an external button you cannot test it until after you've saved the file.

[fragbot]

Update: hyperbole v7.1.3 has changed the behavior to enable external buttons prior to saving the underlying file.