Re: Still checking to see if anyone knows how to find where the Preferences Language Mode information is kept

Steve,

      The nedit man page gives useful information about the files that it
works with.  The nedit man pages are a part of the distribution.  Here is
an excerpt from the FILES section:

FILES
        From version 5.4 on, NEdit creates a directory in which NEdit’s spe‐
        cial files reside. This directory is named ’.nedit’ by default.

        nedit.rc
            This is an X resource file which contains most user settings for
            NEdit. It is read at startup and written by selecting the item
            ’Save Defaults...’ in the Preferences menu. Do not edit this file
            by hand, all settings can be reached via the ’Default Settings’
            menu.

        nedit.history
            The list of recently opened files. Do not edit this file by hand.

        autoload.nm
            A file that can contain a number of NEdit Macro Language state‐
            ments and subroutine definitions. The statements will be executed
            when an NEdit server starts, the subroutines will be loaded for
            later reference.  This file will not be created or modified by
            NEdit (unless you load it and edit it of course).

        Note that NEdit still supports the older names for these files, which
        were used by version 5.3 and below. These legacy file names are
        ‘$HOME/.nedit’, ‘$HOME/.neditdb’ and ‘$HOME/.neditmacro’, respec‐
        tively. This legacy naming scheme will be used if NEdit detects that
        ‘$HOME/.nedit’ is a regular file.

        See also the entry for NEDIT_HOME under ENVIRONMENT, above.

So the "dtlogin.rc or xlib.rc" files are not from nedit.

                   George


Steve Michael Eastin wrote:
> Hi George,
> 
> Would it be a dtlogin.rc or xlib.rc file?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Steve
> 
> PS I did down load Version 5.5 Sep 30, 2004 version, and it is up and
> running.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of George Ganoe
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:58 PM
> To: General NEdit discussion list
> Subject: Re: Still checking to see if anyone knows how to find where the
> Preferences Language Mode information is kept
> 
> Steve,
> 
>       You are correct that the .nedit file you found is likely the one you
> need
> to copy to the other machine, as that is the only config file created by the
> version you are using.
> 
>       One comment about your find command searching for nedit.rc files.  It
> should
> be  'find . -name "*.rc" -print' or something that will get the nedit part
> of the
> nedit.rc name.
> 
>       I'm not sure what version started using the .nedit configuration
> folder
> instead of the file .nedit, and also I'm not sure how well upgraded versions
> will
> be able to read version 5.2 configuration files.  However, even if your
> other
> machine has a newer version, or you put a newer version on it, it is worth a
> try
> to put the current .nedit file in you home folder before you start up the
> new
> version.
> 
>       The current version is version 5.5, and there are test sources
> available
> for version 5.6 if you want to try that one.  Look at the download tab on
> http://www.nedit.org for the latest versions.
> 
>                    George
> 
> 
> Steve Michael Eastin wrote:
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> First thanks for the help.
>>
>> Second, I still have not found exactly what I am looking for (or at least
> I
>> don't think I have).
>>
>> When I go to Preferences, Save Defaults, it prints out; 
>> "Default preferences will be saved in the .nedit file in your home
>> directory.  NEdit automatically loads this file each time it is started".
>>
>> I did a search using 'find . -name ".nedit" -print', and find .nedit in
>> three folders.  
>> Only one folder had the .nedit with today's date (meaning it was changed
>> today, and most likely the one I need).
>>
>> I did a search using 'find . -name ".rc" -print' and no files were found.
>>
>>
>> Here is my question: is the .nedit file the only file which I need to copy
>> to another machine, so I will have same Nedit configuration which I am
>> currently using, or are there other configuration file which will need to
> be
>> copied also?
>>
>> As an FYI this version of Nedit is 5.2 May 2001.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve 
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Balinski [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:52 PM
>> To: General NEdit discussion list; [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Still checking to see if anyone knows how to find where the
>> Preferences Language Mode information is kept
>>
>> Quoting Steve Michael Eastin <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I am still checking to see if anyone knows where the Preferences Language
>>> Mode information is kept on my computer.
>>>
>>> The system is UNIX based.
>>>
>>> I would like to copy the configuration file to another UNIX
>>> station/computer.
>>>
>>> Please respond if you know.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Steve
>> This information is saved in your nedit resource file. If you have made no
>> changes to the language mode settings, there are default values built into
>> the
>> executable. Typically the file will either be $HOME/.nedit for older
>> versions,
>> or $HOME/.nedit/nedit.rc for newer ones (at least on unix-like systems).
> Try
>> the menu Preferences->Save Defaults... - this displays a confirmation
> dialog
>> to update the file, saying exactly where it is.
>>
>> Tony
>>
> 
> 


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