New to Nedit/HPUX

[Maynard, David P]

Finding the user-prefs.dt file, copying it into my home directory and
making the changes Tony suggested were the keys.  Simple, once you know
how its done but HP sure doesn't make it obvious in their documentation.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Balinski [mailto:ajbj at free.fr] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:54 AM
To: General NEdit discussion list
Subject: Re: New to Nedit/HPUX

Quoting Joachim Lous <joachim at lous.org>:

> On 11/14/06, Maynard, David P <david.p.maynard at boeing.com> wrote:
> > I can not figure out how
> > to make the HP-UX File Manager use Nedit as its default editor (so 
> > that double-clicking on a file name with the appropriate extension 
> > in a File manager window launches Nedit).  Hopefully this is 
> > possible but, if so, how is it done ?
>
You now need to associate this action with the File Open or Edit action
for files in the dtfile file manager application. To do this, copy the
system's user-prefs.dt file (this can be found somewhere in the /usr/dt
directory tree) to $HOME/.dt/types/, then edit it. Look for blocks
starting "ACTION TextEditor" or "ACTION EditText". If you find them,
change them to: