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Chris Muller-4

how to pass default startup parameters to VM?

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.

Eliot Miranda-2

Re: how to pass default startup parameters to VM?

Hi Chris,

damn, I thought I'd fixed this. Linux right? I see

r2275 | eliot | 2010-09-04 08:52:10 -0700 (Sat, 04 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

Fix filename character encoding for Mac OS X (in Info.plist; use UTF-8).

Update minimal VMMaker image to latest trunk.

But that's only Mac. I should fix this for the Spur VM on linux.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Chris Muller <[hidden email]> 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.

best,

Eliot

Levente Uzonyi-2

Re: how to pass default startup parameters to VM?

In reply to this post by Chris Muller-4

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

>
>

Chris Muller-3

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

> Try replacing the line with this two:
>
> arguments="-textenc utf8 $@"
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PLUGINS:$SVMLLP:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" exec "$BIN/squeak"
> $arguments

I don't know why, but it works! My only wild guess is that exec only
wants two "arguments", the binary and the arguments to that binary..?
Clearly I do not know much about bash.

Many thanks.