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Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up

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Am 18.06.2017 um 15:25 schrieb Paul McKneely:

> The editor comes up with only the window frame. There is no line with
> drop-down options at the top so I can't select the Options the way it 
> is.

That would indicate more than just the VI mode option is currently 
broken. Your active copy must have gotten royally screwed up.

> Also, I am unaware of where my "home directory" is. If I go into the 
> Users directory from C: and my user name under that, I can't see any 
> file that might be the saved configuration. 

You didn't look hard enough :-)  The directory in question is best 
referred to as

	"%APPDATA%\Open Watcom"

The value of %APPDATA% varies with the version of Windows and some of 
its environment properties, but it's usually somewhere below your home 
directory.  The appdata directory may be hidden from plain sight by 
default settings of explorer and the command line, but you can see it in 
a console window if you know how:

	cd /d "%APPDATA%\Open Watcom"
	dir

> Somewhere I read
> in the Watcom notes that, if you delete the file, a new one will be
> created the next time you run the editor.

That's for _your_ copy.  The file you moved away is the master copy that 
this new one would be built from.

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VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul McKneely <pkmckneely@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-06-15 17:06 -0500
  Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-06-17 08:27 +0200
    Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul McKneely <pkmckneely@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-06-18 08:25 -0500
      Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-06-18 18:33 +0200
        Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2017-06-18 09:36 -0700
          Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-06-19 22:33 +0200
            Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2017-06-20 08:24 -0700

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