McCullough, Ryan a écrit :
The point I am trying to make is that I have been using sc1.exe for over a year and I found out only a couple days ago about the properties files. I was using command line options previously. I think if there was a "Save Configuration" menu option, that it would be much more self-explainatory to users how to save settings.
It is a common grudge against SciTE from people used to Windows editors saving automatically on exit (or explicitly): there is no graphical configuration editor and finding the right settings can be delicate.
On the other hand, SciTE's settings are very flexible and powerful: you can include files with settings depending on user or local folder overriding the master properties, you can set macros (chars.alpha, colour.keyword, etc.) and use them, maintaining consistency across languages, you can have the same configuration on different computers (Linux, Windows, depending on resolution...) using the conditional settings, etc.
As such, it would be very hard to properly automate the saving of settings, unless giving up this flexibility. Bonus: giving the flexibility of SciTE, a configuration dialog would be very complex, thus bloating the exe and adding a high maintenance cost.
Note that nothing prevents you to write such dialog in your favorite language: it would have just to read the properties, change them and be able to save them. The fact that SciTE settings are in a text file and most of them are reloaded on buffer/window activation make that possible.
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