Re: [Diffuse-users] DiffUse: Error processing line 5 of H:\tools\DiffUse\diffuserc

[Ben S. <bxs...@ya...>]

Hello Derrick,

thank you for reply.

Yes, the "syntax" folder exists with *.syntax files in it.

I am using Windows 7 64bit.

and yes, the menu View->Syntax Highlighting is empty.
BUT: Am I really forced to have syntax highlighting enabled?

What, if I just want to temporarily compare e.g.two logfiles and no programming code?

Meanwhile I tracked down the reason for error:

The path is not like the simplified one written in the original post:

H:\tools\DiffUse\diffuserc

but it contains here in reality brackets like

H:\tools\DiffUse [v0.4.8]\diffuserc

If I omit the brackets it works here without error popup.

However I use an indicator for the version in all my software.
And all other software works with brackets in path - except DiffUse.

So I guess its a bug in DiffUse.

Could you fix the error in the next release?

Thank you
Ben







--Original Message Text---
From: Derrick Moser
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 17:05:04 +0000 (UTC)

Ben,

The error message indicates Diffuse could not load the syntax resource files. I am not very familiar with Microsoft Windows and was not able to reproduce the problem so 
you might need to do a little investigating. When Diffuse was installed, it should have created a directory called "syntax" in the same folder as the diffuserc file. Does this 
folder exist? Does it contain a bunch of *.syntax files? My guess is a file permissions problem is preventing the process from reading the syntax files (or inspecting the 
contents of the syntax folder).

The syntax files basically describe syntax highlighting rules. If Diffuse fails to read these, I would expect there to be no entries in the "View -> Syntax Highlighting" menu and 
no text will have syntax highlighting. I would expect the rest of the application to still function correctly. Deleting the diffuserc file will avoid the error message but will also 
remove syntax highlighting support. I would first check that the "syntax" folder exists and the files inside it can be read by the user. Which version of Microsoft Windows did 
you encounter this problem with?

Cheers,
Derrick


From: Ben Stover <bxs...@ya...>
To: DiffUse Users <dif...@li...> 
Sent: Sunday, 6 March 2016, 1:41
Subject: [Diffuse-users] DiffUse: Error processing line 5 of H:\tools\DiffUse\fiffuserc


I installed DiffUse on an external USB flash drive,

When I call it by double clicking diffusew.exe then an error popup appears
with the error msg shown in subject line.

Why?

How can I avoid it?

Can I simply delete diffuserc?

The content of diffuserc is:
---------------------------------------------
# initialisation file for diffuse

# Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Derrick Moser <der...@ya...>

import syntax/*.syntax
----------------------------------------------

After clicking on OK button in error popup the main window appears "as normal"

Ben






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