Re: external editor under windows7

Otfried Cheong <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.ipe.general
Organization Ipe HQ
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 26/10/14 11:45, Otfried Cheong wrote:
> The temporary filename is simply created by the Lua function
> os.tmpname().   Does this simply return a short name with path like
> "s764" on Windows?   That's annoying.

On checking, this is the intended behaviour of tmpname().  The temporary 
file is meant to be created in the current directory.

Is this a problem under Windows?  If you set

      prefs.external_editor = "notepad++ %s"

doesn't it work correctly?

Cheers,
  Otfried
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.