Re: [ jEdit-users ] Changing directory in a macro

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

Hi,

The BeanShell cd() command does not do anything in jEdit. However, you
can execute "cd ..." in the Console using runInSystemShell().

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:43, Hemphill, Barry wrote:
> I'm trying to put together a better macro for running perl scripts
> from within jEdit - the Error List list plugin can be very useful in
> quickly moving around from error to error. I'm using the Run Perl
> Script macro (which uses runCommandInConsole to execute the script),
> but there are a couple of problems I've found with it, so I made a
> modified version.
> 
> First, I found it tedious to type in the arguments at a prompt
> (actually I guess that was the Run Perl Script with args macro), so I
> put in some logic to look for arguments in the first 10 lines of the
> script, in comments. That seems to work pretty well, but I'm still
> having difficulty changing the current directory. If my perl script
> has to read or write a file, and I don't include the fully file path,
> I can't seem to make it work. If I either have the file name hard
> coded (which I often do during development, and put command line arg
> handling in later), or if the filename is passed as an argument, but
> is relative, it fails with file not found, as the current working
> directory is always the jEdit directory.
> 
> Here's what I tried to do first:
> 
> cd( buffer.getDirectory() );
> 
> I figured that way, if the file is in the same directory as the perl
> program, it should work well. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to
> actually do anything - it doesn't error, but when I check (in the perl
> program) what the current dir is, it's still the jEdit directory.
> 
> Next I tried hard coding it:
> 
> cd( "D:\\eHealth\\modules\\silicone" );
> 
> Once again, no effect at all. Am I misunderstanding what cd() does? Is
> there a way I can either change the working directory for the macro to
> the directory of the buffer or, even better, change it to any arbitary
> directory before calling runCommandInConsole()? Should I be tackling
> this in another way entirely? Ultimately, I want to be able to type a
> key sequence (e.g. F11), have the script run, and if there are any
> errors, pop them up in the error list plugin. File IO definitely seems
> to be the sticking point.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
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