At 02:14 PM 4/19/00 -0400, Charles Rich wrote:
>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.
>
The JDE does not include the current version of the beanshell because it
breaks, or at least it did the last time I checked, some important JDE
features.
I will try to requalify the latest beanshell version ASAP.
- Paul
