setedit-users

Re: SETEDIT: bugs

[Thiago F.G. A. <tf...@za...>]

Hi, SET!

Thank you for your reply.

>Why you don't want to have any of them? they are at the end of the list.

When I close a window, I don't want to see it anymore. If I am still going to work on this 
buffer, I don't close it, I simply change to another window.

>> When I run setedit as root, my options are overwriten (Don't make backups, Don't save desktop
>> files, ...) They go back to the defaults.
>
>Sorry but I don't understand it, please clarify. The user `root' have their own settings.

Ok. Here's exactly what I did. I was logged as 'thiago':

su root
e
exit

After this, the options of user 'thiago' go back to the defaults.

I happened twice. Since then, I've been using another editor when I have to edit some file as 
root.

>You could add them as wishes in the Source Forge page. It will help me to remmember

I will.

>> What happened to "Use no shadows" option?
>
>Did the standalone editor have it? I think that's an RHIDE setting.
>You could put it as a wish.

ok.

>> Font problem
>> ============
>>
>> I use lat1u-16, for Portuguese diacritics.
>
>I'll sugest you using lat1-16. They have the codes in the right place.
>The following URL:
>http://www.balug.org.ar/ConfTips/index.html
>Contains some tips about how to install the right fonts.
>Is in spanish but I think you'll understand it. It also explains how to avoid getting "broken
>frames" typical of lat1-16 fonts.
>
>> But then the graphic characters used by the editor
>> get all messed up (window borders, etc.). I guess I have to edit the font, but I don't know 
how
>> to do it. Does anybody know?
>
>Is much more easy:Tool&Ops|Options|Screen Options
>Look for the options with "(Linux)" because the Linux fonts adds some funny characters in the
>"undefined" range (to support VT100 charsets, in favor of PC one, which I think is quite
>questionable).

Thanks for the URL. It contains very useful information.

Thiago.

Re: SETEDIT: bugs

[salvador <sal...@in...>]

Thiago wrote:
> >> When I run setedit as root, my options are overwriten (Don't make
backups, Don't save desktop
> >> files, ...) They go back to the defaults.
> >
> >Sorry but I don't understand it, please clarify. The user `root' have
their own settings.
>
> Ok. Here's exactly what I did. I was logged as 'thiago':
>
> su root
> e
> exit
>
> After this, the options of user 'thiago' go back to the defaults.

I couldn't reproduce it, but I have an idea of what could happend.
I think your user have a central desktop file and it was stored in ~/
And I think your root isn't using a central desktop file so you used su
when you were in /home/thiago. Then the root loaded the default desktop
file for Thiago and at exit saved it as root.root. So then you tried to run
the editor as thiago, as the file was owned by root and was read-only the
editor said "Wrong desktop file", and then you needed to delete the desktop
file losing your configuration.
That's the only situation I could generate, and is fixed in 0.4.49 because
now the default desktop file is stored in ~/.setedit avoiding such a mess.

SET

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Re: SETEDIT: bugs

[salvador <sal...@in...>]

"Thiago F.G. Albuquerque" <tf...@za...> wrote:

> Why I can't set "max. closed to remmember" = 0?

Done, now you can set it to 0 and also disable it with another setting.

> Man page viewer
> ===============
> Doesn't close with ESC.

Done, now ESC closes it.

SET

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Re: SETEDIT: bugs

[Thiago F.G. A. <tf...@za...>]

I have something to add about this. It happened again after I send this report. But this time it 
had nothing to do with being root or at the home directory.

I was logged as myself and I was in a "regular" directory (I mean, not home), with some files, a 
desktop and a project file. I was doing something at the shell, then I started the editor and a 
message box poped up saying "Wrong desktop file". Then I exited the editor and started to 
investigate to see what happened. I found out that the desktop and the project files in the 
current directory and the desktop file in my home directory were truncated to 0 bytes.

I am absolutely clueless as to what may have caused this. It doesn't happen everytime, but it 
happens once in a while. It happened twice.

Thiago

On 11/10/01 17:38:41, salvador wrote:

>Thiago wrote:
>> >> When I run setedit as root, my options are overwriten (Don't make
>backups, Don't save desktop
>> >> files, ...) They go back to the defaults.
>> >
>> >Sorry but I don't understand it, please clarify. The user `root' have
>their own settings.
>>
>> Ok. Here's exactly what I did. I was logged as 'thiago':
>>
>> su root
>> e
>> exit
>>
>> After this, the options of user 'thiago' go back to the defaults.
>
>I couldn't reproduce it, but I have an idea of what could happend.
>I think your user have a central desktop file and it was stored in ~/

Yes, this is correct.

>And I think your root isn't using a central desktop file so you used su
>when you were in /home/thiago. Then the root loaded the default desktop
>file for Thiago and at exit saved it as root. So then you tried to run
>the editor as thiago, as the file was owned by root and was read-only the
>editor said "Wrong desktop file", and then you needed to delete the desktop
>file losing your configuration.
>That's the only situation I could generate, and is fixed in 0.4.49 because
>now the default desktop file is stored in ~/.setedit avoiding such a mess.

Re: SETEDIT: bugs

[salvador <sal...@in...>]

"Thiago F.G. Albuquerque" wrote:

> I have something to add about this. It happened again after I send this report. But this time it
> had nothing to do with being root or at the home directory.
>
> I was logged as myself and I was in a "regular" directory (I mean, not home), with some files, a
> desktop and a project file. I was doing something at the shell, then I started the editor and a
> message box poped up saying "Wrong desktop file".

Are you using hidden desktop files?
What was the owner of the desktop files in this directory? you or root?

> Then I exited the editor and started to
> investigate to see what happened. I found out that the desktop and the project files in the
> current directory and the desktop file in my home directory were truncated to 0 bytes.

It can happend only if the editor crashed while saving the desktop file.
I'll suggest you using the last version of the editor, it backups the central desktop file before
writing a new one.

SET

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Re: SETEDIT: bugs

[salvador <sal...@in...>]

Hi Thiago:

> Thank you for your reply.
>
> >Why you don't want to have any of them? they are at the end of the list.
>
> When I close a window, I don't want to see it anymore. If I am still going to work on this
> buffer, I don't close it, I simply change to another window.

:-)), but you could open it again, no?

> >> When I run setedit as root, my options are overwriten (Don't make backups, Don't save desktop
> >> files, ...) They go back to the defaults.
> >
> >Sorry but I don't understand it, please clarify. The user `root' have their own settings.
>
> Ok. Here's exactly what I did. I was logged as 'thiago':
>
> su root
> e
> exit
>
> After this, the options of user 'thiago' go back to the defaults.

Please monitor these files:
1) /home/thiago/.setenvir.dat
2) /root/.setenvir.dat
3) /usr/share/setedit/.setenvir.dat (shouldn't exist)
Do it before going to root and after it.
Also: Are you using su and running setedit from /home/thiago? If yes just avoid it, it can create
files owned by root in your directory.

> I happened twice. Since then, I've been using another editor when I have to edit some file as
> root.

Do a backup of the files I mention (plus default desktops) and try it. I use setedit both, as root
and as a regular user and never saw a mix of settings.

> >> Font problem
> >> ============

[snip]

> Thanks for the URL. It contains very useful information.

I'm glad to heard it. I wrote it after configuring a system by nth time, I saw I was forced to
solve the same details again and again. So I put it in an easy to read way and available for
others.

SET

--
Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer)
Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/
Alternative e-mail: se...@co... se...@ie...
Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero
Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA Phone: +(5411) 4759 0013