Thanks Rich, it is now working as I hoped. This is a fabulous feature!

Thanks again for you prompt help.

- Adam


On Nov 10, 12:16 pm, Rich Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, Adam Franco
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >However, when I copy to the drupal.bbeditSettings file to a directory
> >on a SMB share, then it doesn't get used by BBEdit. I've also tried
> >copying my entire test directory to an SMB share and the settings file
> >doesn't get used there as it does when it is on my local drive.
>
> Correct - this is done by default for performance reasons, but
> you can enable it. Here's the excerpt from the 9.6 change notes:
>
>      When editing files that are on remote file servers (AFP, NFS,
>      SMB, etc), BBEdit will no longer look for directory-relative
>      tags files or settings files. This is a particular performance
>      win when the file is located on a volume mounted via MacFUSE/SSH
>      or similar, or if the file server is over a slow or high-latency
>      link.
>
>      To re-enable scanning for tags or settings files, use these
>      separately or together:
>
>      defaults write com.barebones.bbedit
> Misc:DisableCtagsScanOnRemoteVolumes -bool NO
>
>      defaults write com.barebones.bbedit
> Misc:DisableSettingsScanOnRemoteVolumes -bool NO
>
> >3. The EntabWidth, DetabWidth, and TidySpacesPerTab don't seem to have
> >any effect, but I don't really need these settings anyway.
>
> Not all settings are loaded from directory-specific files.
> Unfortunately there is no documentation of which ones are and
> which ones aren't, so you'll need to try the ones you care about
> -- but in general, settings which affect the display and editing
> behaviors and are remembered with a document's state can be
> changed with directory specific prefs, and most others cannot.
>
> R.
> --
> Rich Siegel                                 Bare Bones Software, Inc.
> <[email protected]>                      <http://www.barebones.com/>
>
> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
> sedate me.

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