The wordfiles installed by the installer in "UE prog dir\wordfiles" are always without color settings. As I reported the problems with the color settings in my wordfile I added a note that this method will be in future very problematic because of the color settings stored in the wordfiles in "%appdata%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\wordfiles". UltraEdit has always silently without warning updated the modified wordfiles (jacvascript.uew, c_cplusplus.uew) in "%appdata%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\wordfiles". As you can see I like homogeneous environments even if Microsoft thinks they must change the user environments with every Windows version.īefore v15. Again the advantage for me of this hack was that on all my computers the same directory contains the application data files of my programs. By the way: I have hacked in the registry of my 3 computers the path to the APPDATA directory to use C:\Programs\Appdata and no problem in the last 10 years with this setting. "%appdata%\IDMComp\UltraEdit" contained before v15.00 only the file projects.lst which was always created in this directory even on my Win98 SE computer where I have had no APPDATA environment. It looks like current UltraEdit uses always "%appdata%\IDMComp\UltraEdit" and not "directory of the INI\wordfiles" as I expected it and as UltraEdit has used in the past for all other configuration files (menus, toolbars, keyboard file, etc). ![]() That's interesting because my uedit32.ini is not there. However, this is no a real problem because when I would ever decide to split up my single wordfile into multiple wordfiles, I would use my Config directory as wordfiles directory and not the default "directory of the INI\wordfiles".īut with my special configuration I detected that UltraEdit copied always whole directory C:\Programs\UltraEd\wordfiles to "%appdata%\IDMComp\UltraEdit" on start of UE when this user specific default wordfiles directory does not exist. As you can see I could never use the standard wordfiles in the wordfiles directory of the INI file location because this would be also C:\Programs\UltraEd\wordfiles and so the installer would always overwrite my wordfiles if I would not rename those I want to use. The installer installed the wordfiles into the directory C:\Programs\UltraEd\wordfiles. What happened in the past with my very special configuration when UltraEdit was updated? I fixed this by setting the read-only attribute on the wordfile. The only thing I don't like and which I have also already reported is that UltraEdit updates the color settings on every exit although I never change them and therefore the file time of the wordfile changes all the time. all these problems are fixed and now the color settings are correct managed by UltraEdit in my wordfile. They were not correct moved from my C:\Programs\UltraEd\uedit32.ini into the wordfile and some of them always changed on every exit. have had a problem with correct handling the color settings in my wordfile. ![]() That makes it very easy to synchronize UltraEdit (and all my other programs installed in the same manner). The big advantage for me is that UltraEdit is on all my computers always in the same directory and all the files are in the same directory. Personal.uew is not a standard name for a wordfile and the Config directory created by myself containing some of my UltraEdit configuration files like the wordfile or the taglist file is not the UltraEdit default. For some applications I have even manually manipulated the program directory after installation if the installer did not give me the choice to specify a different directory which of course requires always hacks in the registry. But what is default when using German Win98 SE, English WinXP and German Vista? So I started already in 1999 to ignore completely what Microsoft specifies as standard in their Windows versions and which is used by most applications nowadays by default too and install my programs whenever possible never in the default location the installer suggests. ![]() C:\Programs\UltraEd is the UltraEdit program directory. I still use 1 wordfile with currently 18 langugages stored in C:\Programs\UltraEd\Config\Personal.uew. And backup your wordfiles before updating - more precise before launching UltraEdit the first time after the update - for security. Copy your wordfiles into a different directory with a name you like and specify this directory in the syntax highlighting configuration dialog. I can only suggest for users already using a wordfiles directory with multiple CUSTOMIZED wordfiles (words or color settings) not to use the standard %appdata%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\wordfiles.
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