Per-directory settings

[wwp]

Hello Tony,


On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:04:05 -0400 Tony Balinski <ajbj at free.fr> wrote:

> Quoting wwp <subscript at free.fr>:
> 
> > Hello there,
> >
> >
> > I wonder if nedit does or would allow to use different editor settings
> > following the directory it loads files from. IIRC vim has such behaviour,
> > it allows to set .vimrc files in directories so that different edition
> > settings are used. I use NEdit for years, and don't want to switch to
> > vim, at all :-).
> 
> Not really. NEdit's configuration is rather monolithic, being almost
> entirely dependent on a single file, nedit.rc in the directory ~/.nedit.
> By defining the environment variable $NEDIT_HOME as a path, you can get it
> to look elsewhere for this file for an alternative configuration. A simple
> command wrapper shell script could be written to load up an alternative
> nedit.rc, containing something like:
[snip]

Many thanks for this detailed reply! I'll dig into the detail and see how I
can use the macro mechanism to override some settings according to the path
of the opened file. The scheme is simple here, I have a single root path for
files at work, any other location -> default settings; I'll see how I can
fine-tune this later.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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