Use multiple SciTE installations

[BugFix@AutoIt]

I'm using Windows and SciTE4Autoit. I want additional install the default SciTE (currently SciTE 5.0.0).

But I want to use one "SciTEUser.properties" for each SciTE version. By default SciTE uses the properties file from "../AppData/Local".

Is there a possibility to have multiple "SciTEUser.properties"? Is there a property to set the storage location, like: "user.properties=$(SciteHome)/SciTEStartup.lua"?

[Neil Hodgson]

BugFix@AutoIt:

> I'm using Windows and SciTE4Autoit. I want additional install the default SciTE (currently SciTE 5.0.0).
> But I want to use one "SciTEUser.properties" for each SciTE version. By default SciTE uses the properties file from "../AppData/Local”. Is there a possibility to have multiple "SciTEUser.properties"?

https://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html#PropertiesFile
There are two environment variables, "SciTE_HOME" and "SciTE_USERHOME", which the user may set to override the standard locations of the global and/or the user properties files (this and the following applies to Windows and GTK):

> Is there a property to set the storage location, like: "user.properties=$(SciteHome)/SciTEStartup.lua”?

Which properties file could this go in since it is pointing to the user properties file? It can’t go into SciTEGlobal as that gets overwritten with each release.

Neil

[BugFix@AutoIt]

Neil Hodgson:

There are two environment variables, "SciTE_HOME" and "SciTE_USERHOME", which the user may set to override the standard locations of the global and/or the user properties files (this and the following applies to Windows and GTK):

All right, but no matter which environment variable I set, it will be used by every SciTE installation - right? This would mean that it is not possible to use different versions in one user account at the same time.

Or do you see a way to assign different paths for the properties files to each installation?

Another possibility might be to use a launcher to select which version I want before each start of SciTE. Based on this selection, I reset the environment variables beforehand.

Best regards

BugFix

[Csaba Raduly]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 10:37, 'BugFix@AutoIt' via scite-interest
<scite-i...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Neil Hodgson:
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>> There are two environment variables, "SciTE_HOME" and "SciTE_USERHOME", which the user may set to override the standard locations of the global and/or the user properties files (this and the following applies to Windows and GTK):
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> All right, but no matter which environment variable I set, it will be used by every SciTE installation - right? This would mean that it is not possible to use different versions in one user account at the same time.
> Or do you see a way to assign different paths for the properties files to each installation?

You could write a batch file which sets the environment variable(s)
and then "start scite %1 %2 %3...."

Csaba
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