Undocked Outline doesn't update

[mscheltienne]

When the outline is undocked, it doesn't update when a new file is open. Example: I have the outline undock on a second monitor and I just open epochs.py.

Now if I dock it, it updates.

If I undock it, it works as expected.

Until I open a new file, e.g. chpi.py, which will not be displayed in the outline:

Note that if I switch in the editor to the previous file, epochs.py, I do get the correct outline.

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Conclusion, it looks like the outline doesn't update itself when a file is open if it is not dock. Note that I am on macOS and at some point on this installation I used Kite. It was messing up with the outline and with the editor. Since then, I managed to remove Kite from the system (a pain!!) and it's better. But it might have something to do with the outline behavior

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Running spyder 5.1.5 with Python 3.8.10 on macOS 11.6.

# Mandatory:
applaunchservices >=0.1.7     :  0.2.1 (OK)
atomicwrites >=1.2.0          :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0               :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0           :  2.0.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0          :  1.7.3 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111   :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2          :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0               :  7.28.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0         :  0.18.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0            :  4.1.1 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0              :  23.2.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0               :  6.2.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0              :  1.1.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0;<0.9.0          :  0.8.2 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0               :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4             :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                  :  5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                :  2.10.0 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0;<2.10.0        :  2.9.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0           :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.2.2;<1.3.0          :  1.2.4 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.0.0           :  None (OK)
qdarkstyle =3.0.2             :  3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10            :  0.2.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2             :  1.0.3 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.1.0             :  5.1.1 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                  :  1.11.2 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                 :  0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0           :  58.2.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                :  4.2.0 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.1.1;<2.2.0 :  2.1.3 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0          :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1           :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3             :  2.1.6 (OK)
zmq >=17                      :  22.3.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                 :  None (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0            :  3.4.3 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                   :  1.21.2 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                :  1.3.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                :  1.7.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                 :  None (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Hey @mscheltienne, thanks for reporting. I think I know what's the cause of this problem and I'll try to fix it in a future release.