"winhugs /edit" problem

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Olivier,

> Actually I do have TextPad and I get: "Cannot find key
> 'TextPad\shell\open\ddeexec\application' in registration
> database (error 2)" which, as I said in my first email, is
> the same error that I get when trying "winhugs /edit" from
> the command line. I speculated that was the command because
> that is the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\hugs_haskell\shell\Edit\command
> key but it is clear that more happens under the cover after that.
>
> Under Options, TextPad is already the selected editor, so that
> doesn't help me. The (grayed out) command is "C:\Programme\
> Textpad 5\System\DDEOPN32.EXE TextPad %s(%d)". Trying to execute
> that from the Windows shell gives the same error as above.

The fact that running the TextPad command gives a registry error means
it's TextPad that is at fault. I know roughly what WinHugs does, but
have absolutely no idea what TextPad does. The command is grayed out
because it was automatically inferred, but change to a custom editor
and you can edit it. All WinHugs does on /edit is invoke whatever that
command line is after substituting %s for the filename and %d for the
line number.

> I think the mistake is to look for a TextPad entry: there
> isn't one. Instead there are Textpad.dde and TextPad.tws
> entries and I guess Textpad.dde is the correct one since it
> has the shell\open\ddeexec\application key. But whose mistake
> is it: TextPad's or WinHugs' and how does one go about fixing it?

TextPad is at fault. You can work round the textpad bug by changing
the editor command line to something else, or try and bring it up in
the TextPad support forum. Or try reinstalling TextPad.

Thanks, Neil