Dear Juergen, If you have trouble reliably finding the home directory, how do you find the preferences file?
I would say to find the .apl.history file in the same way and place you find the .gnu-apl directory. That would be consistent. The problem I am having is that since I use GNU APL from the command line, every time I start GNU APL up, I first have to check the directory I am in, otherwise I get a bunch of random .apl.history files all over the place. I understand that I can fix the problem in my preferences file, but now I have to remember to potentially edit that file for each user or machine I am on to account for the different home directory. I don't have to do that with my .gnu-emacs file. Either way is fine. Just sharing my opinion. Thanks! Blake On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Juergen Sauermann < juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > yes. The problem with that is that it requires the presence of a home > directory. > > There are use cases like scripting where the interpreter cannot figure > where the > home directory is located and my strategy is to depend on as few > environment > variables (like $HOME or $PWD) as possible. > > Note that ~ is a shell convention and not a file system property so that > ~/.apl.history > or $HOME/.apl.history may fail under certain circumstances. > > /// Jürgen > > > > On 07/02/2014 04:25 PM, Blake McBride wrote: > > Dear Juergen, > > Thanks. I can do that, but every other Linux program I have ever used, > although it may allow me to specify a config file location as you do, the > default is always in the home directory. > > Thanks. > > Blake > > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Juergen Sauermann < > juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > >> Hi Blake, >> >> you can set the path in the preferences files: >> >> READLINE_HISTORY_PATH = /home/... >> >> /// Jürgen >> >> >> >> On 07/01/2014 11:14 PM, Blake McBride wrote: >> >>> GNU APL creates a .apl.history in whatever directory APL is started up >>> in. This is unlike all other system I've seen, and a problem when you >>> don't start APL in the same directory each time. I think rather than >>> .apl.history, the system should use ~/.apl.history >>> In other words keep in the home directory. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Blake >>> >>> >> > >
