Re: [jed-users] Re: jed for Win2K

[Dino Sangoi <dino.sangoi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the late reply,

the windows version of JED looks for the config file in the directory
pointed by the USERPROFILE environment variable. this is almost always
already defined, and something like "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>", or
"C:\Users\<user>".

if the environment variable is not defined, then fallbacks to "C:\". If you
want to take a look, all this happens in site.sl, around line 3060 (in the
latest JED version).

As you already figured out, the file should be named "jed.rc" (mostly for
compatibility with old windows versions).

The installer should set all the paths correctly, so no other environment
variables should be needed.

by the way, there was a bug in the color handling in recent versions of jed
(reported by Frank and fixed by John): if you took the installer from
http://sauroblog.blogspot.it/, all should be fine, if instead you got it
from the google drive link, there is an updated version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_JelIuQb-1XaVJmV1FiQjlBVFE/edit?usp=sharing


Hope this helps,

Dino




On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Mike McClain <mike.junk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>     Using Dino's installer I've got Jed installed but can't figure
> out how to get it to read my config files.
>     I've installed Jed on G:/Jed and generated a batch file to load
> Jed that looks like this:
>
> set JED_ROOT=G:\Jed
> set JED_LIBRARY = G:\Jed\lib
> set JED_HOME = H:\docs\lnx\mike
> set HOME = H:\docs\lnx\mike
> G:\Jed\bin\wjed.exe
>
>     I've also declared those environment variables in my .bashrc
> and the windows environment. I know it's working to some extent
> because I can open ~/jed.rc in Jed but it's not being loaded.
> Jed comes up in black scheme even though I've put 'mycolors.sl'
> in G:\Jed\lib\colors and can load 'mycolors' from the menu. I put
> mycolors in G:\Jed\lib\site.sl as _Jed_Color_Scheme and
> _Jed_Default_Color_Scheme but it doesn't load by default.
>
>     I've also installed GNUWin tools with bash and to keep from
> cluttering the desktop have declared HOME='H:/docs/lnx/mike' for bash.
>
> I've put jed.rc on the desktop, in $JED_LIBRARY, in $JED_HOME,
> $JED_HOME/jed and $HOME/.jed yet as far as I can tell it's not being
> loaded and I've run out of ideas.
>     Suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Mike
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