From: Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder@...>
Date: 2005-06-01T08:40:22+09:00
Subject: Re: sciTe editor IRB window getting double characters

David Boyd:

 > Thanks again.  Is there any way to put a variable in the properties
 > file to point to the Ruby help library?  This way, at install time,
 > the (environmental) variable could be set to point to where the help
 > file is.

    There is SciTE documentation at
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDoc.html
    "Environment variables are also available as properties and these 
are overridden by an explicit setting in one of the properties files."

    The one click installer could do this but standard SciTE does not 
use an installer and doesn't know where Ruby (or PHP or Rexx) is 
installed. I think it is much easier to set variables in properties 
files than to set environment variables on Windows.

 >  (If not, it should probably be set to the default location
 > for the install.  -- Isn't this c:\program files\....?? I don't use
 > this due to occasional problems with spaces in path names.  I wasn't
 > sure if scite exhibits this common problem or if, for example,
 > surrounding quotes are needed.)

    It depends on how it is used, so for example, if it is passed to a 
command line program then that program may require paths containing 
spaces to be quoted.

    Neil