[JED] Configuration problem - Editors

For completeness:


On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:35:29 +0100, Michele Dondi
<bik.mido@tiscalinet.it> wrote:

>Under gentoo, when I fire up jed, it gives me an error message to the
>point that it is unable to load some file, but then it prompts me for
>suppliying a file to edit. For some reason, the keybindings are those
>I chose, thus ~/.jedrc is loaded, but my customized colors are not.

Problem solved:

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:23:38 +0000 (UTC)
From: "[UTF-8] Jörg Sommer" <***>
To: jed-users-l@elara.jtan.com
Newsgroups: local.mailinglist.jed
Subject: Re: Configuration problem

Hallo Michele,

Michele Dondi <***> wrote:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote:

Michele Dondi <***> wrote:

then it starts loading .slc files. At a certain point
I'm left with "loading /usr/share/jed/lib/modeinfo.slc" -
However I'm
in Emacs mode with the default colors, which means that my
~/.jedrc is
NEVER read.


Do you have a directory ~/.jed? From
/usr/share/doc/jed/README.Debian-startup:

* ~/.jed/jed.rc % user config file (if it
exists),
% skipped with the -n
command line option)
or ~/.jedrc % if ~/.jed/ doesnot exist


I have BOTH:

icard:~ [22:30:58]$ ls -rl .jed*
-rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users 10155 Jan 11 2005 .jedrc~
-rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users 10245 Oct 27 11:57 .jedrc

.jed:
total 788
-rw------- 1 blazar users 786534 Oct 28 22:29 recent_db
drwxr-xr-x 3 blazar users 4096 Dec 5 2002 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users 5112 Mar 8 2002 home-lib.sl


So you must move your .jedrc to ~/.jed/jed.rc. The Filesystem
Hierarchy
Standard recommends to place only one entry in the home directory.

,----[ /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs-2.3.txt.gz ]
|User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's
|home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a "dot file"). If
|an application needs to create more than one dot file then they should be
|placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a "dot
|directory"). In this case the configuration files should not start with the '.'
|character. [11]
`----

So Debian uses ~/.jed/jed.rc if the directory ~/.jed exists and
doesn't
look for ~/.jedrc in this case. For backward compatibility the
fallback
to ~/.jedrc is provided, but I don't would swear that it stays.

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>What's worse, under debian, (and I will HAVE to work with it!) when I
>fire up jed, it writes "Run-time error" for a fraction of a second in
>the status bar, then it starts loading .slc files. At a certain point
>I'm left with "loading /usr/share/jed/lib/modeinfo.slc" - However I'm
>in Emacs mode with the default colors, which means that my ~/.jedrc is
>NEVER read.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:25:44 -0400
From: John E. Davis <***>
To: jed-users@jedsoft.org
Subject: Re: Configuration problem

Michele Dondi <***> wrote:
[...]

loading /home/blazar/.jedrc
loading /usr/share/slsh/local-packages/~/.jed/home-lib.sl
Unable to load /usr/share/slsh/local-packages/~/.jed/home-lib.sl


What file is loading ~/.jed/home-lib.sl? You will need to modify it
to use

()= evalfile (expand_filename ("~/.jed/home-lib.sl"));

Or, for more robustness, use:

$1 = expand_filename ("~/.jed/home-lib.sl");
if (NULL != stat_file ($1))
() = evalfile($1);

--John

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Michele
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