Bugs item #1907176, was opened at 2008-03-04 09:36
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Submitted By: Tony Balinski (ajbj)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Empty $file_path

Initial Comment:
When you start NEdit without a particular file, you get a document labelled 
"Unknown". It is created without a file path, which can be a big problem if you 
execute macros from it using $file_name.

This is easy to fix in function EditNewFile() in file.c, where window->path is 
assigned:

strcpy(window->path, defaultPath ? defaultPath : "");

Instead of "", call GetCurrentDir() (in util/utils.c).
On Unix/Linux/Posix/Cygwin you'll need to add a "/" to that, since that's how 
file paths are normally terminated in NEdit. (On VMS, I expect this is not 
necessary, but I don't have such a system to play with. I don't know about 
other file path conventions on other systems.)

Having made the change results in a correctly assigned $file_path value for 
these documents. This path is visible in the statistics line (if you use that), 
another useful feature.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-03-11 10:34

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I think maybe it is better to have a more complicated fix other than
breaking the logicality and consistency with a simple fix.

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Comment By: Bert Wesarg (lebert)
Date: 2008-03-11 10:21

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Than feel free to open a new bug report. this bug affects only the first
Untitled document, if you start NEdit without a given file name. New
Untitled documents if other files are open, has already a path attached.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-03-11 10:12

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I think logically if there is a path, and if it can be shown in the
statistics line, why can't it be shown on the title?

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Comment By: Bert Wesarg (lebert)
Date: 2008-03-11 09:23

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The path in the window is not shown, because an Untitled document has no
real filename and NEdit prevents than to show the path.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-03-11 07:49

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By calling GetCurrentDir() you can have the path visible in the statistics
line but not in the window title (even if you choose to show it).

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Comment By: Bert Wesarg (lebert)
Date: 2008-03-04 10:19

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Great, I noticed this too, while we both discuss your
relativeFileNormalization patch, but haven't time to look at this. Thanks.


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