Re: sourcenav munges my preferences!

[Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>]

This bit really bugs me.

You could try and double up the "/" i.e. "//".

Hopefullt it's gone now but, they where some
dialogs where you had to replace each slash with
four (i.e. "C:\\\\hello\\\\world\\\\test.c").

Ian.

D-Man wrote:
> 
> In the preferences dialog I want the build command to be:
> 
> sourcenav-ant.bat VSS/LegacyIntegrator buildFull
> 
> but snav insists on changing it to
> 
> sourcenav-ant.bat VSS\LegacyIntegrator buildFull
> 
> I took a look at the source, in multimake.tcl line 215 is :
> 
> @@set $this-makecommand [file nativename $sn_options(both,make-command)]
> 
> Apparently SNav is trying to be smart by converting paths to the
> native format.  The problem is I don't want that.  It won't work with
> a '\'.  (The build command invokes bash, which runs a shell script
> that runs ant (a make replacement for java) and the shell script needs
> the / because the \L turns into L and the resulting path DNE).
> 
> I changed the line to :
> 
> @@set $this-makecommand $sn_options(both,make-command)
> 
> and the build window now appears correctly.  However, if I open the
> preferences dialog again, it has munged the command.
> 
> What can I hack to remove this "feature" and get the string exactly as
> I entered?
> 
> Thanks,
> -D