Set SciTE user home

[Richard Robertson]

SciTE is currently configured to drop its files directly in my user profile folder. I want to move that without messing with a batch file and changing my user profile environment variable. Is there a way to do this in the global SciTE properties file?

[Valik]

No. You'll need to change your environment variable or use an AutoIt script/batch file wrapper to set it.

[Richard Robertson]

Unfortunate. Thanks for confirmation though.

[danielkza]

What I do is keep SciTEUser.properties in SciTE's directory and add

import SciTEUser

to the end of the Global options file. Unfortunately you still have to deal with the session file. And from your writing I can't be sure if you don't want to change USERPROFILE particularly or any env. var at all, but in the first case, you can set SciTE_Home instead (ignore me if you knew that already).

Edited August 31, 2012 by danielkza

[Richard Robertson]

SciTE_Home doesn't change the user directory. It changes the base directory.

I'd be Ok with changing USERPROFILE in a batch/script before launching SciTE because I know it won't be permanently saved that way but I don't like the fact that I should have to rather than it being reconfigurable or put in AppData where it belongs in the first place.

[Valik]

Wait, so you'll modify USERPROFILE in a batch script but you won't change SciTE_Home which is the variable that controls where the file goes in the first place? I get the feeling you don't actually know what SciTE_Home does. If you want your SciTEUser.properties and session files to go in %APPDATA%SciTE then set SciTE_Home to %APPDATA%SciTE either in a batch script or a user-defined environment variable. Then you're done.

[Richard Robertson]

I read somewhere that SciTE_Home also moves the global properties file location essentially forcing them to the same folder.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html

If the "SciTE_HOME" environment variable is set on either Windows or GTK+ then it is where both the global and user properties files are found.

I did research and knew about the SciTE_Home variable before asking here.

Edited September 1, 2012 by Richard Robertson

[Valik]

I didn't realize it moved the global file since I set SciTE_Home to the SciTE root directory. Still, is this a big deal?

[jaberwacky]

A little clarification for those of us less techy please. Is the environment variable that which is accessible from My Computer --> Properties --> Advanced? If so then I don't see any SciTE specific variables. Is this something that would have to be created?

[BrewManNH]

Yes, you'd have to create it. I use the AutoIt3 portable script in Example Scripts which sets this automatically, and then runs SciTE, and then as soon as the program exits, the environment variable gets destroyed.

[Richard Robertson]

I didn't realize it moved the global file since I set SciTE_Home to the SciTE root directory. Still, is this a big deal?

It makes multiple user accounts annoying to use because either everything is global or everything is user.

[danielkza]

A little clarification for those of us less techy please. Is the environment variable that which is accessible from My Computer --> Properties --> Advanced? If so then I don't see any SciTE specific variables. Is this something that would have to be created?

Programs usually just check for the existence and the value of an environment variable without creating it, much less saving it to your personal, permanent environment (which is the one you can edit from the Control Panel). Which means you need to know in advance which variables which program tries to use.

It makes multiple user accounts annoying to use because either everything is global or everything is user.

What exactly do you want to be Global and per-User?

Edited September 2, 2012 by danielkza

[Richard Robertson]

Mostly color scheme differences per user. However my complaint was that SciTE was dropping files directly in the user folder rather than AppData where application data belongs on Windows.

Edited September 2, 2012 by Richard Robertson