Thorsten Haude wrote:
> I don't think they do. NEdit has two kinds of settings:
> - Preferences are those that change behaviour of future documents,
> like 'Make Backup Copy'; these also have a matching local setting.
> - Globals are affecting all documents immediately.
>
> The settings with action routines are all preferences, and only the
> local option is changed. The command shell is a global option however,
> and changing it would affect all windows.
Setting line numbers or the statistics line also affects all windows.
What you probably mean is the difference between a change in the
Default Settings[which you call global?] and just a change in the
Preferences menu (minus the cascade Default Settings) [which you call
local?]. The menu preferences actions don't change the Default
settings, of course. Wouldn't be the case for setting the shell,
either.
> > old_shell = $command_shell
> > set_command_shell("/bin/csh")
> > shell_command(...) # with C shell syntax in this case
> > set_command_shell(old_shell)
>
> Actually it would be better to write
> shell_command("csh -c '...'")
Sure, if it would work. Unfortunately, there are (even old) examples
where it won't work (like detaching a shell to open a previewer thing
without letting the macro go on running).
Jörg
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