CodeLite two stored configurations?

[DarkBug]

What is the difference between those two configurations of CodeLite? Are both used?

configuration 1: C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeLite
configuration 2: C:\Users\DarkBug\AppData\Roaming\CodeLite

E.g. the lexers directory is stored in both configurations, but it seems to me, that this directory is only used from configuration 1.

Best regards,
DarkBug

[eranif]

configuration 1: C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeLite
configuration 2: C:\Users\DarkBug\AppData\Roaming\CodeLite

The first path is the "clean" configurations that comes with codelite installer.
The second is the user modified configurations ( for example, when you edit any configuration in codelite like changing settings in the syntax highlight dialog - these changes will be written to the second path)

As a rule, an application should NEVER attempt to modify installation files placed under C:\Program Files\.. or under /usr/share/codelite (in many cases codelite will not have permission to modify those files)


Instead, application should write any user configuration to a dedicated location, the location is differ per OS:
Under Linux, codelite will write any modified settings to $HOME/.codelite/ ,under Windows it will be %appdata%\CodeLite\ and for Mac it will be under /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/codelite

The user settings will always take precedence over the default settings. So if a file exists in both locations, the one under the user's directory will be used.

Also:
1) It is also safe to remove the user folder completely and restore codelite to its "factory settings" (and in many cases this is what I recommend people to do when they hit a wall...)
2) When codelite is un-installed, the user directory is *not* removed - so installing a new codelite will make use of these settings as well (this is how codelite preserve the settings between versions)

Eran

[DarkBug]

I have made a lexer and put it under C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeLite\lexers. I then can choose this lexer under Settings->Syntax Highlight and Fonts.... But if i put the lexer under C:\Users\DarkBug\AppData\Roaming\CodeLite\lexers, CodeLite won't recognize it.

[eranif]

This is because codelite searches for the list of lexers under the installation directory (C:\Program Files\...)

Once codelite has an initial list, it will search for the user version of the lexer under the user's directory - if it will find it, it will override the default one with the user's version.
However, it does not search for list of lexers under the user's directory

Eran