Macro Variable Syntax Problem

[Dumin, Nels]

Hi,

I just started having a problem loading a macro file at start-up.

I have the following lines in my .neditmacro file:

  $HOME               = shell_command ("echo -n $HOME", "")
  $NEDIT_MACRO_DIR    = $HOME "/share/nedit/macros/"
  $EXPANDER_MACRO_DIR = $HOME "/share/nedit/expander/macros/"
  load_macro_file ($EXPANDER_MACRO_DIR "system.nm")

This used to work just fine (for three years, across many versions
including 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5RC1), but today it started giving me the
following error:

  Error reading macro file Variable syntax
  /home/ndumin/share/nedit/expander/macros/system.nm: No such file or
directory

The file "/home/ndumin/share/nedit/expander/macros/system.nm" does
indeed exist, and I can load it from the menu by using File -> Load
Macro File.

Through experimentation, I found that hard-coding the full path of the
file in the load_macro_file statement works:

  load_macro_file ("/home/ndumin/share/nedit/expander/macros/system.nm")

I can live with this, but I'm interested in knowing why the old commands
suddenly stopped working.

I also tried converting from the old style of start-up files
($HOME/.nedit, $HOME/.neditmacro, $HOME/.neditdb) to the new style
($NEDIT_HOME/nedit.rc, $NEDIT_HOME/autoload.nm,
$NEDIT_HOME/nedit.history), but the problem persisted.

Anybody know what's up?


Regards,
 Nels Dumin
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