Re: [ jEdit-users ] what is the best approach to move from pre7 to pre8 ?

[Stefan R. <ste...@of...>]

on 10.11.2006 01:25 Slava Pestov said the following:
> You can do this:
> 
> jedit -settings=/whatever/directory/you/want/
> 
> As for reinstalling your OS every time it gets "hit", I can't help  
> you there. ;)
> 
> Slava

Hi,

I share the dislike of storing custom settings on C: in Windows.

The settings parameter works of course.
What I do: I have an environment variable
HOME=D:/HOME

Most unix-friendly apps respect that and put settings there.
jEdit does not, but I force it to by starting it with the Java option 
``-Duser.home=D:/HOME`` (e.g., via the jEdit Launcher Java Options).

I dimly remember filing a bug report about jedit not respecting $HOME 
once. (so that's my motivation for chiming in here ;-)

You could also tell Windows to move your whole user settings dir to D:, 
but there is a lot of cruft in there. I usually only bother to teach the 
applications I care about to respect my $HOME, like jEdit. :-)

cheers,
stefan


> On 9-Nov-06, at 7:17 PM, Manoj wrote:
> 
> 
>>Good to know that.
>>
>>It would be great if while installing it ask for the user  
>>directory. I normally don't like to store custom properties on C  
>>drive, as if I have to reinstall the OS, it gets hit, as well as if  
>>I have to do a backup, which I regularly do and want to back up my  
>>settings I have to do this folder in particular. If i had the  
>>flexibility of providing the user directory i would just mention it  
>>in D drive and then have a back up of D drive which has all the  
>>other files.
>>
>>Also in networked environment, this would be helpful, so that you  
>>can use the user specific data from any machine on a network.
>>
>>My 2 cents
>>
>>On 11/9/06, Slava Pestov <sl...@fa...> wrote: If you  
>>installed your custom modes and macros in the user settings
>>directory and not the jEdit directory, all you have to do is delete
>>pre7 and install pre8.
>>
>>Note that properties are always stored in the user settings directory.
>>
>>Slava
>>
>>On 9-Nov-06, at 6:58 PM, Manoj wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Every time I do install new version of jEdit, I have to go through
>>>the whole process of copying the files in mode directory, copying
>>>the macros, setting properties, etc.
>>>
>>>Is there a better approach of upgrading it without all the pain ?
>>>
>>> 
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