Ahh... Then the correct general thing to do is to have Emacs/JDE pass
the value of the HOME environment value to bsh via the java command
line when it starts up. I.e., in spirit:
java -Duser.home=(getenv "HOME")
and then your Beanshell code can load an init file from user.home in
both Windows and Linux.
(Actually, come to think of it, passing the value of HOME to user.home
like this would be a good thing for the JDE to do _whenever_ it runs java!
Current, the default value of user.home in NT is something useless
like C:\WINNT\Profiles\rich.001 )
Btw, JDE beta23 includes BeanShdell 0.96 beta.
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:25:07 -0500
> From: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Here's documentation from info regarding how emacs finds it's
> > init file. Bsh should use the same procedure. The actual
> > source code is in emacs-20.6/lisp/startup.el, search for "HOME".
> > I know this works because I reset HOME in my NT environment
> > to be c:\rich.
>
> Perhaps Paul could have bsh source a file based on this logic at startup.
> Java doesn't provide access to environment variables (at least it's deprecated).
>
> I'll add it to the list of things to do.
>
> BTW, I'm not sure if the versin of bsh distributed with the JDE is up to 1.0,
> which has the current .rc file logic based on the user.home sytem property.
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