Re: [eclipse-clp-users] Finding the ECLiPSE startup directory

From: Paulo Moura <pmoura_at_di.ubi.pt>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:03:13 +0000
On 2009/03/16, at 18:18, Kish Shen wrote:

> Paulo Moura wrote:
>> I would like to also have a similar solution for Windows. Note  
>> that  you can easily create a shortcut for the Windows Start Menu  
>> menu item  that runs ECLiPSe and configure this shortcut to assume  
>> as the current  directory the directory containing the shortcut.
>
> Hi Paulo,
>
> As far as I understand it (admittedly I try to avoid development on  
> Windows if I can),

Same here ;-)

> a shortcut is just a `shell' command to run the program, in this  
> case probably eclipse.exe, which is where you can specify the -e  
> option as I suggested. Assuming you are also running LogTalk

Please, Logtalk, not LogTalk :-)

> using a shell script on POSIX systems, you can also use -e option  
> when you invoke ECLiPSe from your script. You can then either read  
> the files you want then, or if you can't do that yet, then you will  
> need to remember the directory and use it when you can.


Please see my previous reply to the mailing list. I cannot use the -e  
option as I need to know the startup directory for the initialization  
goals in the file that I'm loading using the -b option and the -e  
option goal is executed after the -b option.

Note that what I'm trying to accomplish is similar to ECLiPSe  
initialization at startup behavior. From the docs:

"For eclipse, before displaying the initial prompt, the system checks  
whether there is a file called .eclipserc in the current directory and  
if not, in the user's home directory. If such a file is found, ECLiPSe  
compiles it first."

Cheers,

Paulo


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