[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] how to pass default startup parameters to VM?

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Chris Muller wrote:

> Has anyone noticed that cutting text out of Chrome and trying to paste
> it in Squeak does not work at all unless you first paste into a
> text-editor first and copy it out of there?
>
> Or, if you simply pass the -textenc utf8 paramter to the VM, all
> C&P'ing seems to work just fine.
>
> But I never remember to do it, plus its more to type every time I
> start a VM.  So I wnat to put it into the actual bash script.
>
> I thought I could just sneak it into the last line in that file:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PLUGINS:$SVMLLP:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" exec "$BIN/squeak" "$@"
>
> changing it to:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PLUGINS:$SVMLLP:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" exec
> "$BIN/squeak -textenc utf8" "$@"
>
> but that isn't right.  Any suggestions?  Thx.

Try replacing the line with this two:

arguments="-textenc utf8 $@"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PLUGINS:$SVMLLP:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" exec "$BIN/squeak" $arguments


Levente

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