<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2729" abp="2010"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2728" abp="2011">Hi Christophe,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2731" abp="2010"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2730" abp="2011">The problem seems to be that the location had white spaces in the address, no mater how I used the quotes so I reinstalled in a root directory & now all is OK.</span></div><div abp="2010"><span abp="2011">Thanks</span></div><div abp="2010"><span abp="2011">Mark</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2717" abp="2012"><br abp="2013"><br abp="2014"></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2676" style="display: block;" abp="2015"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2675" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" abp="2016"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2674" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" abp="2017"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2673" dir="ltr" abp="2018"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2716" face="Arial" size="2" abp="2019"> <hr size="1" abp="2020"> <b abp="2021"><span style="font-weight: bold;" abp="2022">From:</span></b> Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be><br abp="2023"> <b abp="2024"><span style="font-weight: bold;" abp="2025">To:</span></b> Mark Smith <piedycat@yahoo.com> <br abp="2026"><b abp="2027"><span style="font-weight: bold;" abp="2028">Cc:</span></b> "gmsh@onelab.info" <gmsh@onelab.info><br abp="2029"> <b abp="2030"><span style="font-weight: bold;" abp="2031">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 23, 2016 2:01 PM<br abp="2032"> <b abp="2033"><span style="font-weight: bold;" abp="2034">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Gmsh] windows 7 text editor<br abp="2035"> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2694" abp="2036"><br abp="2037"><br clear="none" abp="2038">> On 23 Aug 2016, at 14:44, Mark Smith <<a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471960923344_2715" href="mailto:piedycat@yahoo.com" shape="rect" abp="2039" ymailto="mailto:piedycat@yahoo.com">piedycat@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" abp="2040">> <br clear="none" abp="2041">> Hi,<br clear="none" abp="2042">> I set the text editor in gmsh_options to<br clear="none" abp="2043">> General.TextEditor = """C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %s"; // System command to launch a text editor<br clear="none" abp="2044">> <br clear="none" abp="2045">> Then when I launch gmsh it shows in tools>general>advanced notepad.exe %s in the text editor command,<br clear="none" abp="2046">> it completely ignores the setting in the gmsh_options file?<br clear="none" abp="2047">> the location of gmsh_options is C:\Users\....\AppData\Roaming/gmsh-options as reported from "show file path"<br clear="none" abp="2048">> What is wrong?<br clear="none" abp="2049"><br clear="none" abp="2050">Not sure; but the double quotes will clearly upset the parser. Could you try changing the setting in the GUI (Tools->Options->Advanced) with<br clear="none" abp="2051"><br clear="none" abp="2052">'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' %s<br clear="none" abp="2053"><br clear="none" abp="2054">(note the single quotes around the executable), then File->Save options as default?<br clear="none" abp="2055"><br clear="none" abp="2056">> <br clear="none" abp="2057">> If you hit restore all options to default settings where are the settings obtained from is there a default_options file somewhere & if so where?<br clear="none" abp="2058"><br clear="none" abp="2059">Restore all options actually deletes that file.<br clear="none" abp="2060"><br clear="none" abp="2061">Christophe<div class="yqt2105162703" id="yqtfd28094" abp="2062"><br clear="none" abp="2063"><br clear="none" abp="2064"><br clear="none" abp="2065">> <br clear="none" abp="2066">> Thanks in advance<br clear="none" abp="2067">> mark</div><br clear="none" abp="2068">> <br clear="none" abp="2069">> <br clear="none" abp="2070">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none" abp="2071">> gmsh mailing list<br clear="none" abp="2072">> <a href="mailto:gmsh@onelab.info" shape="rect" abp="2073" ymailto="mailto:gmsh@onelab.info">gmsh@onelab.info</a><br clear="none" abp="2074">> <a href="http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh" target="_blank" shape="rect" abp="2075">http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh</a><br clear="none" abp="2076"><br clear="none" abp="2077">-- <br clear="none" abp="2078">Prof. Christophe Geuzaine<br clear="none" abp="2079">University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science <br clear="none" abp="2080"><a href="http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine" target="_blank" shape="rect" abp="2081">http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine</a><br clear="none" abp="2082"><br clear="none" abp="2083">Free software: <a href="http://gmsh.info/" target="_blank" shape="rect" abp="2084">http://gmsh.info/</a>| <a href="http://getdp.info/" target="_blank" shape="rect" abp="2085">http://getdp.info/</a>| <a href="http://onelab.info/" target="_blank" shape="rect" abp="2086">http://onelab.info/</a><br clear="none" abp="2087"><br clear="none" abp="2088"><br clear="none" abp="2089">_______________________________________________<br clear="none" abp="2090">gmsh mailing list<br clear="none" abp="2091"><a href="mailto:gmsh@onelab.info" shape="rect" abp="2092" ymailto="mailto:gmsh@onelab.info">gmsh@onelab.info</a><br clear="none" abp="2093"><a href="http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh" target="_blank" shape="rect" abp="2094">http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh</a><div class="yqt2105162703" id="yqtfd21882" abp="2095"><br clear="none" abp="2096"></div><br abp="2097"><br abp="2098"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>