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REBOL_HOME

 [1/11] from: mumpsoid::gmx::com at: 27-Mar-2009 21:28


I set the REBOL_HOME env. var. to point to $HOME/rebol where I want all my REBOL scripts scripts to live. Either the interpreter does not recognize this env. var. or I'm missing something, cuz when I do: load %blah.r => no joy load rebol/%blah.r => no joy Do I need to specify the complete path for REBOL to find files? Anybody else having issues with REBOL_HOME? -- Duke Normandin A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

 [2/11] from: tim-johnsons:web at: 28-Mar-2009 8:02


On Friday 27 March 2009, mumpsoid-gmx.com wrote:
> I set the REBOL_HOME env. var. to point to $HOME/rebol where I want > all my REBOL scripts scripts to live. Either the interpreter does not
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> Do I need to specify the complete path for REBOL to find files? > Anybody else having issues with REBOL_HOME?
I've used rebol on linux for over 8 years. I never did get REBO_HOME to work. I've gotten used to a customized user.r which is either loaded explicitly as in load %/some/path/to/user.r or resides in the same directory as the executable script. Even with a cgi script, the rebol binary appears to check for a user.r in the same directory as the script. I went on to customize user.r with a system path variable and an import scheme. Code available if you want. [tim: almost-60]

 [3/11] from: mumpsoid:gmx at: 28-Mar-2009 10:44


On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Tim Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 27 March 2009, mumpsoid-gmx.com wrote: > > I set the REBOL_HOME env. var. to point to $HOME/rebol where I want
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> scheme. Code available if you want. > [tim: almost-60]
Hey Carl S. -- are you listening in on this? Hello Tim.... I'd appreciate your code that works-around this PITA. REBOL_HOME would have been way too cool I suppose. I think that the problem is in the semantics between the *nix definition of $HOME and HOME means to the rest of computer-dom. Carl S. ---- is this easily fixable? Almost 60!!!! Start counting backwards NOW - young man. You'll live to enjoy it ;)) -- Duke Normandin A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

 [4/11] from: tim-johnsons::web::com at: 28-Mar-2009 10:54


On Saturday 28 March 2009, mumpsoid-gmx.com wrote:
> Hey Carl S. -- are you listening in on this?
Disclaimer: I couldn't get it to work, doesn't mean it doesn't work...
> I'd appreciate your code that works-around this PITA. REBOL_HOME would > have been way too cool I suppose. I think that the problem is in the > semantics between the *nix definition of $HOME and HOME means to the > rest of computer-dom.
I did come to something like that conclusion too.
> Carl S. ---- is this easily fixable? > > Almost 60!!!! Start counting backwards NOW - young man. You'll live > to enjoy it ;))
Yeah. By 5.. tj

 [5/11] from: moliad:gm:ail at: 30-Mar-2009 15:06


Hi all, you can use the library system to get the env. directly... since its now free as of v2.7.6 its not a big deal. but you still need to source the config (user.r) script manually then. -------------------------------------------------------------- ;- libc libc*: context [ libc: make library! switch system/version/4 [ 2 [%libc.dylib] ; OSX 3 [%msvcrt.dll] ; Windows 4 [%libc.so] ; Linux 7 [%libc.so] ; FreeBSD 8 [%libc.so] ; NetBSD 9 [%libc.so] ; OpenBSD 10 [%libc.so] ; Solaris ] getenv: make routine! [ "Get an environment variable." in-string [string!] "Name of an environment variable" return: [string!] ] libc "getenv" ] ;- getenv getenv: func [ "REBOL friendly getenv function" varname [word! string!] ][ varname: to-string varname if find varname " " [ to-error "os.getenv() varname may not contain spaces." ] return libc*/getenv as-string varname ] home-path: probe get-env 'HOME do join dirize to-rebol-file home-path %rebol-user-config.r ------------------------------------------------------- HTH! -MAx

 [6/11] from: moliad::gmail::com at: 30-Mar-2009 15:08


ooops, note it should be: home-path: probe getenv 'HOME (no dash in getenv) -MAx

 [7/11] from: anton:wilddsl:au at: 31-Mar-2009 14:47


Hi, Not sure if this helps, but here are some things I did. On linux, the VIEW-ROOT setting seems to be hardcoded in the rebol binary to ~/.rebol/view/ I wanted to locate all my rebol scripts in ~/dev/rebol/view/, so I symlinked ~/.rebol -> ~/dev/rebol in my home directory, like so: ln -s dev/rebol/ .rebol I also have this line in my user.r if system/options/home = %/home/anton/ [ ; as on linux system/options/home: %/home/anton/dev/rebol/view/ ] When you start rebol, check the following values in the console to see if everything looks right: view-root system/options/home system/options/path system/options/boot what-dir <-- Returns current directory. Affected by CHANGE-DIR Regards, Anton. mumpsoid-gmx.com wrote:

 [8/11] from: mumpsoid:gmx at: 31-Mar-2009 5:35


On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Anton Rolls wrote:
> Hi, > Not sure if this helps, but here are some things I did.
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> > Do I need to specify the complete path for REBOL to find files? > > Anybody else having issues with REBOL_HOME?
Thank you, Anton. Thanks to good-old-*nix, the above is a suitable work-around. Much appreciated. -- Duke Normandin A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

 [9/11] from: mumpsoid::gmx::com at: 31-Mar-2009 5:42


On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch wrote:
> Hi all, > you can use the library system to get the env. directly... since its now
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> HTH! > -MAx
I don't yet understand REBOL enough or it's inner workings to "see" how the above code would point the interpreter to where I want REBOL's script home to be. -- Duke Normandin A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

 [10/11] from: moliad::gmail::com at: 31-Mar-2009 20:02


hi, I guess you refer to my script :-) its just a rebol implementation of the getenv function which allows you retrieve any of the system's environment variables. -MAx On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:42 AM, <mumpsoid-gmx.com> wrote:

 [11/11] from: mumpsoid::gmx::com at: 31-Mar-2009 19:11


On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch wrote:
> hi, > I guess you refer to my script :-)
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> > "script home" to be. > > --
Please do not top-post.... Thank you for the script's explanation. I have saved it in my REBOL-snippets file. You never know.....? L8r.. -- Duke Normandin A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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