Re: Re: Load and save commands for interpeter

Michael Geary wrote:
>> From: Mark Hahn
>> The history of what has happened in your session is already
>> in a file you can open and edit to turn into a script.  The
>> file **is in the same folder as prothon.exe** and is called
>> ".prothon_history".  Have you ever noticed that the command
>> history was remembered between sessions? [emphasis added]
>
> Short term, that file location is no problem. Longer term, it won't
> fly. You may not be able to write *anything* to the directory
> containing prothon.exe, except at install time. This file and any
> others like it should go in the user's profile, either in the
> Application Data or Local Settings\Application Data folder, depending
> on whether it should be uploaded and downloaded as part of a roaming
> profile.
>
> I only have a minute right now, but later on I can get you the APIs
> to use if you're not already familiar with them. (For Windows; I
> don't know the ins and outs for Linux and other OSes--but in general
> there should be both the concept of the application install directory
> and a user-specific data directory.)

As Paul pointed out, there is a lame attempt at home support right now with
a HOME environment variable.  I'll add a to-do item to add full support for
a sys.userHome path that parallels the sys.prothonHome path we already have.