Saving settings & Contradictory theme setting

[sl23]

Hi

Two things:
1. How do I separate all user settings to transfer to a new install? Is it specific folders? Or are there certain files only in those folders? I've got some odd files that I don't know if safe to remove. Some appear to just be duplicates, but I have no idea.

2. When looking for the info when I asked how to set Rainmeter lexer as default for INI files, I couldn't find that topic on the forum, but I figured it out, I found a setting that doesn't match up:

Lexers editing - styles only
In the "Lexer properties" dialog, activate "Styles" tab, it has UI to customize styles in the active lexer. This UI is enabled only when lexer themes are Off, ie option "ui_lexer_themes":false.

Then I came across this in my user.json file:

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But in the Options Editor dialogue box:

What's going on here?

Thanks for your help.

[sl23]

Odd! Now the Options Editor says false as well???

[sl23]

Another issue: I've set INI files to default open with Rainmeter Lexer, but I would like many other files to do so. How do I set them to do this? I tried:

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  "detect": {
    "*.ini,*.inf": "Rainmeter",
  },

Is the ',' the correct separator?

Turns out I haven't sorted the INI files auto opening with Rainmeter lexer!
Any chance of some help please?

[main Alexey]

1. it is folder "settings", located e.g. in ~/.config/cudatext on linux.
other locations: https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Lo ... a'_folders
you can limit files to only 'user.json' if you want.

2. if OptionsEditor shows different thing than user.json, try to make reproduction steps, how to repeat it on clean install.
seems it's fixed for you now?

3.

I tried:
"detect": {
"*.ini,*.inf": "Rainmeter",
},

it is wrong file! only one file mask must be on the left side. so make this:

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  "detect": {
    "*.ini": "Rainmeter",
    "*.inf": "Rainmeter",
  },

if uppercase *.INI are not detected yet, add mask for "*.INI" too. AFAIR uppercase mask is not needed, pls check.

[main Alexey]

(additional uppercase mask in "detect" in user.json IS needed for uppercase extensions, I checked).

[sl23]

Thanks for your support!
1. I guess this is the folder for user settings, does it backup ALL user changes? Like Toolbar buttons, UI Theme, and what about changes to lexers, your own lexers? I'm confused as to where these are stored, how they get updated during app updates, etc. Do I need to backup the whole data folder? Are lexer changes now stored in the settings folder? As I have noticed that I no longer need to copy the old SynWrite lexers to lexlib now after an app update. It would be useful if anything User related was placed in a User folder, this makes it clear that this is the only folder required for backup, and least we can be sure that everything is covered.

I have been searching through many cudatext directories to try and find out what is what. I can't keep up with all the updates for all my apps, ie, what's changed, so I get lost when a dev changes things like where things are stored, like user settings.

2. Yes, seems this is ok now. Not sure why it showed different setting as I hadn't touched it, I just came across it accidentally.

3. Ah, ok, excellent, thanks for solving that! Wouldn't it be better to have one line like my attempt? I have a lot of file extensions to add to this lexer, and would be less work to copy and paste from my text file straight into this and keeps the settings file tidier. No biggie, just my ocd! :lol;

4. One other thing, Is there any way to keep the Find/Replace dialogue shown at the bottom of the window from closing between sessions? I would like to have it always shown as I use it quite a lot. Just the option in the Menu/View/ to Toggle Find/Replace would be great. Thanks.

[main Alexey]

3. >Wouldn't it be better to have one line like my attempt?
I don't plan it, since current way works ok, and you can call 'duplicate line' command easily.

4. >Find/Replace dialogue shown at the bottom of the window from closing between sessions?
No such option. but if you call the dialog by the hotkey, it will be auto shown. Only if you use the mouse click, it will be better. but - you can mouse-click the sidebar icon to show the dialog.

[main Alexey]

1. >I guess this is the folder for user settings, does it backup ALL user changes?

'settings' is all configs, but not all changes - changes are installed plugins, themes, icon sets, linters....
to move all of the latter too - you must 'sync' folders 'data' and 'py' in 2 Cud folders (old + new).

>and what about changes to lexers, your own lexers?

lexers live in the 'data/lexlib' subdir (and lite-lexers live in 'data/lexliblite'). so sync the 'data' dir.

'sync' means that you copy all user-created / user-modified files from 'data'/'py' to the dir of new CudaText.

>Are lexer changes now stored in the settings folder?

no, in data/lexlib.

[sl23]

3. Yeah sure, no worries.

4. Would you consider adding the option Toggle Find/Replace via the Menu/View? I tend to close CT a lot so it means that although I have a Toolbar Button, I have to click that every time I open it. Gets a little annoying. As it doesn't take up much space at the bottom of the window, I would much prefer it to always be shown.

>Are lexer changes now stored in the settings folder?
no, in data/lexlib.

In that case, what are those files named after lexers in the settings folder for? Are they redundant files or still required?

[main Alexey]

what are those files named after lexers in the settings folder for? Are they redundant files or still required?

do you mean files like settings/Python.cuda-lexops ?
these are settings for colors/styles of lexer - when "ui_lexer_themes": false.
they are not required but they have your custom configured lexer colors.