Re: Project files and other fun...

[Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Doug Fraser wrote:

> 
> Hello.

Hi Doug.
 
> I am a newbie to source navigator, with a couple of
> questions.
> 
> I am using SN5.
> 
> It seems that project '.proj' files have full path names
> in them, and I was wondering if there is anyway to create
> project files with relative paths that are prepended by
> an environment variable so that they can be shared through CVS.

No, all path names are fully qualified. Getting everything
working with relative paths is a big job and one that
really needs to be done.

> Also, for importing (snavigator -import /file/path) you
> have to supply the full path to the file. It won't just pick
> up the file from the current directory. Also, that file must
> contain full paths. Is there some env value or flag that will
> root it from the current working directory or from some
> prenamed root path?
> 
> Other than these problems, it is a great tool.
> 
> BTW: I have zero TCL knowledge, a bit of Perl knowledge, a lot
> 	of C and ASM. I tried plowing around the tcl code, but could
> 	not figure out how .proj files are managed. I did note a
> 	number of env() variables (HOME, TMP, TEMP ...) but nothing
> 	that looked useful for my questions.
...
> I probably need to learn some tcl in any case, just so that
> I can hook VIM into the editor. 

If you want to learn some Tcl, one of the books is
a good place to start.

http://tcl.activestate.com:8002/resource/doc/books

cheers
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc