Hi Blake,
I don't have to. If I don't find $HOME then the preferences file in
$HOME is not read and
the /etc/gnu-apl.d/preferences file is read. If that file would use
$HOME then its purpose
of having a fallback in case $HOME is not working would be undermined.
/// Jürgen
On 07/02/2014 05:41 PM, Blake McBride wrote:
Dear Juergen,
If you have trouble reliably finding the home directory, how do you
find the preferences file?
I would say to find the .apl.history file in the same way and place
you find the .gnu-apl directory. That would be consistent.
The problem I am having is that since I use GNU APL from the command
line, every time I start GNU APL up, I first have to check the
directory I am in, otherwise I get a bunch of random .apl.history
files all over the place.
I understand that I can fix the problem in my preferences file, but
now I have to remember to potentially edit that file for each user or
machine I am on to account for the different home directory. I don't
have to do that with my .gnu-emacs file.
Either way is fine. Just sharing my opinion.
Thanks!
Blake
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Juergen Sauermann
<juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de <mailto:juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de>>
wrote:
Hi Blake,
yes. The problem with that is that it requires the presence of a
home directory.
There are use cases like scripting where the interpreter cannot
figure where the
home directory is located and my strategy is to depend on as few
environment
variables (like $HOME or $PWD) as possible.
Note that ~ is a shell convention and not a file system property
so that ~/.apl.history
or $HOME/.apl.history may fail under certain circumstances.
/// Jürgen
On 07/02/2014 04:25 PM, Blake McBride wrote:
Dear Juergen,
Thanks. I can do that, but every other Linux program I have ever
used, although it may allow me to specify a config file location
as you do, the default is always in the home directory.
Thanks.
Blake
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Juergen Sauermann
<juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de
<mailto:juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de>> wrote:
Hi Blake,
you can set the path in the preferences files:
READLINE_HISTORY_PATH = /home/...
/// Jürgen
On 07/01/2014 11:14 PM, Blake McBride wrote:
GNU APL creates a .apl.history in whatever directory APL
is started up in. This is unlike all other system I've
seen, and a problem when you don't start APL in the same
directory each time. I think rather than .apl.history,
the system should use ~/.apl.history
In other words keep in the home directory.
Thanks.
Blake
