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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
